Summary
The better is the enemy of the good? AMD has to be hellishly careful not to cannibalize and even make obsolete with the Radeon Pro WX 8200. The performance advantage of the larger (and more expensive) card is always measurable, but in practice you won't notice it at all. And that's why AMD will probably have reduced the features to take off the more expensive card a little more.
Sure, I could only test the Vega Frontier Edition instead of the Radeon Pro WX 9100, but the difference between the two Vega64 cards is likely to be rather marginal. And if you're enough with the four video outputs on offer, you'll hardly find any reason to buy the bigger card. In video encoding, the two cards are almost always the same, which has also made the benchmarks obsolete. Construction and presentation dominate both cards equally.
The solution with the thermal paste made of graphite is rare enough to mention it explicitly. Especially with the Interposer solution, this option was certainly not a bad idea. This is especially important because the card is not really economical. Which brings us to the only point of criticism that can really be found.
While all of Nvidia's Quadro cards come to the customer with significantly lower TBP and lowered clock, making them even more efficient than the consumer counterparts, AMD has a set between the balanced and turbo modes of the Radeon Pro WX 8200. Consumer-Vega56, which also mercilessly exploits the card. But even if energy is not cheap, you should stay fair.
It is likely to significantly exceed the useful life of such a card in order to argue with a payback by saving energy by means of a more efficient, but also more expensive Quadro card. The performance differences, on the other hand, are not so great; of course, always in dependence of application and driver optimization in the special use case.
Then a Radeon Pro 8200 can quickly become a real bargain, but it doesn't necessarily have to. Case-dependent. As a plus, the drivers in the GUI present themselves more sleek, clearer and faster than those of the green competitor. There, one still only relies on the inner values and the look & feel of the early 2000s.
| Per | Cons |
| Good price point Ordinary performance DHE cooling principle Thoughtful board layout Clean processing |
No energy-saving BIOS Relatively high TBP Only 4 video outputs |
Conclusion
The price point of less than 1000 euros is cleverly chosen, because of course this is also a psychological barrier. For a content creator, the Vega Frontier Edition is still the smarter alternative, but unfortunately it's hardly available. But if you can live with the slightly more slimmed-down features, rely on a real workstation and maybe even want to use directGMA technology and S400 Synchronization modules, you can access them without hesitation. It will probably not be much cheaper in the foreseeable future.
Pro Render and the appropriate plugins can significantly simplify, accelerate and upgrade many tasks in an interesting and above all inexpensive way. This is exactly when the competitor again has to pay royalties for this and that. Because if you're honest, what the DLCs are in gaming is the entire plugin and add-on story in the production area. You will probably never get a program completely.
The Radeon Pro WX 8200 is certainly not the fastest and most efficient card for professional use, but the combination of everything is quite balanced. If you add the attractive price, the purchase is definitely worth considering if the software available and used by the customer allows it.
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