AMD Radeon Pro W7700 Review: Hitting The Sub-$1000, Pro-Vis Sweet Spot

Before wrapping up our Radeon Pro W7700 evaluation, we'd like to cover a couple of final data points -- namely, power consumption and noise. Throughout all of our benchmarking and testing, we monitored acoustics and tracked how much power our test system was consuming using a power meter. Our goal was to give you an idea of how much power each graphics configuration used while idling and also while under heavy graphics and processing workloads. Please keep in mind that we were testing total system power consumption at the outlet here, not the power being drawn by the graphics cards alone.

Power Consumption Testing

The AMD Radeon Pro W7700 is among the more power-friendly cards of the bunch, and shows a major efficiency improvement over previous-gen cards. The lower-priced, more mainstream Radeon Pro W6600 and W7600 cards used the least amount of power under load, followed by the Radeon Pro W7700. The most interesting comparison here is between the Radeon Pro W7700 and the W6800, however. Despite offering similar -- but sometimes better -- performance to the Radeon Pro W6800, the new W7700 uses significantly less power for compute and rasterization workloads.


Temperatures and noise are also non-issues with the AMD Radeon Pro W7700. As you can see in the hardware data captured during a VRMark run, the GPU temperature peaks just above the 70°C mark and framerates, the GPU frequency, and performance remain consistent throughout the run.

With its relatively low GPU temps, the fan speed on the Radeon Pro W7700 remains low as well, which keeps the card fairly quiet. During normal operation, the AMD Radeon Pro W7700 is mild mannered and shouldn't pose an issue in terms of thermals or acoustics in any properly configured system with adequate cooling. (Note: We tested inside a mid-tower chassis).

AMD AMD Radeon Pro W7700: The Verdict

We thought AMD did a great job with the high-end AMD Radeon Pro W7900 and W7800, in our opinion. The cards offer excellent overall performance, with increased power efficiency, moderate thermals and acoustics, and they offered class-leading display output options, that were ready for next-gen displays. The Radeon Pro W7700 does all of those same things, but targets a much more palatable $999 price-point. Considering the current street price of the Radeon Pro W6800 is still hovering around $1,500 and the NVIDA RTX A6000 (Ampere generation) is thousands more, AMD has priced the Radeon Pro W7700 very aggressively.

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Ultimately, as was the case with its higher-end counterparts, the AMD Radeon Pro W7700 offers excellent performance in its class, along with leading-edge features, and competitive pricing. Its performance isn't a clean sweep across the board, especially when ray tracing is factored into the mix, but the AMD Radeon Pro W7700 is still a well-rounded product that should serve prospective workstation customers very well. Due to its relatively strong performance, improved efficiency, and manageable form factor with tame power consumption and acoustics, we can easily recommended the Radeon Pro W7700 to anyone shopping for a current-gen professional workstation GPU.