AMD puts its Polaris chips and reworked drivers to work in three new workstation graphics cards.
AMD maintains a focus of efficiency, the WX 3100 draws a max of 50W with power monitoring and management that is designed to reduce power consumption at idle. Video Card Benchmarks - Over 1,000,000 Video Cards and 3,900 Models Benchmarked and compared in graph form - This page contains a graph which includes benchmark results for high end Video Cards - such as recently released ATI and nVidia video cards using the PCI-Express standard. Since then, the driver fixed that issue and then some, clearly.The Application Workflows metric reveals where Nvidia competes (geometry processing) and where it's out-classed (shading/compute performance).
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The WX 3100 includes three outputs (1xDP, 2x mini DP 1.4) capable of driving three 4K displays at 60Hz or one 5K 30Hz.To test the AMD Radeon Pro WX 3100, we installed it in our desktop workstation, an Looking at drawtime, the WX measured 9.31 seconds, compared to 6.262 seconds of the M2000. All rights reserved. These viewsets include: CATIA, Creo, Energy, Maya, Mecial, Showcase, Siemens NX, and Solidworks.
It seems like the 3100 is on par with the RX 550. The FirePro brand is dead; long live the Radeon Pro. Built on the 14 nm process, and based on the Lexa graphics processor, in its Lexa XT variant, the card supports DirectX 12. All of these workloads are well within the wheelhouse for places the WX 3100 may be deployed. To test the AMD Radeon Pro WX 3100, we installed it in our desktop workstation, an HP Z640 and ran several relevant benchmarks to evaluate performance when compared to the nearest similar-class GPU in the lab, an NVIDIA M2000.
They're mostly apparent in the details, so we're listing all of the sub-scores.In Creo 3.0, the Quadro M4000’s dismal results become apparent from a look at the Graphics Composite score.Drilling down to the sub-scores further illuminates Nvidia's trouble areas. This isn't a great result which indicates that there are much faster alternatives on the comparison list. Interestingly, the WX 3100 is the higher-clocked part of the two, peaking 36MHz higher.In its marketing slides, AMD pits its WX 3100 (I unfortunately do not have a Quadro P600 to test AMD’s latest cards against, but there is a huge amount of performance information nonetheless that should prove useful in helping you figure out which one of the lower-end options are best for you.Before jumping into the performance results, I’d encourage you to look over our system specs and basic testing methodologies:On the following pages, I’ll be putting AMD’s Radeon Pro WX 3100 through a gauntlet of real-world and synthetic tests, utilizing apps from Autodesk, Adobe, SPEC, SiSoftware, and a handful of others (including light gaming tests for good measure).All tests are run at least twice to produce an accurate result, and if for some reason an odd result creeps up, I do a third run.