AMD Radeon Pro W7700 Review: Hitting The Sub-$1000, Pro-Vis Sweet Spot
SPECviewperf 2020 v3.1 OpenGL / DX Benchmarks
SPECviewperf includes a variety of tests, which produce significantly different framerates, so we've sorted them into three groups to make the results a bit easier to sort through. Please note the legends at the bottom of each chart, which designate the application or viewset used...
The Radeon Pro W7700 finishes just behind the Radeon Pro W7900 And W7800 in the various SPECviewperf tests, and trades blows with the Radeon Pro W6800 and NVIDIA RTX A6000 (Ampere generation). Considering the Radeon Pro W7700's sub-$1,000 price point, these are some particularly strong numbers.
VR & Ray Tracing Benchmarks
UL VRMark is designed to test a PC’s readiness for the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift virtual reality headsets. The benchmark does not, however, require that one of the headsets is attached to the PC to run and it uses an in-house graphics engine and content to ensure comparable results between different platforms. We ran the "Blue Room" VRMark test at defaults settings here, which is currently the most taxing test offered by the tool. We followed up UL's VRMark with the DirectX Ray Tracing (DXR) Feature test recently added to the 3DMark suite...
In this traditional rasterization benchmark (there's no ray tracing at play here), the Radeon Pro W7700 finishes a notch behind the Radeon Pro W6800. Although the Radeon Pro W7700 offers significantly better compute performance that its predecessor, its pixel / texture fill rate is similar and the Radeon Pro W7700 has half the Infinity Cache of the W6800.
This particular benchmark is laser-focused on DXR Ray Tracing performance and shows NVIDIA's advantage in this regard. The Radeon Pro W7700 smashes the Radeon Pro W7600, but can't quite catch the Radeon Pro W6800.
Blackmagic RAW Speed Test Results
The Blackmagic RAW Speed Test is a CPU and GPU benchmarking tool that tests the speed of decoding full-resolution Blackmagic RAW frames. The tool can be used to evaluate the performance at various resolutions and bitrates on the CPU or using OpenCL on a GPU. We're reporting two results here, both at an 8K resolution, but at differing bitrates and compression levels.
The Blackmagic RAW speed test also illustrates NVIDIA's advantage with RAW image decoding. The NVIDIA card offers significantly better performance than any of the AMD cards, while the Radeon Pro W7700 finishes right on top of the W6800, and a notch behind the W7800.
