AMD Radeon Pro WX 7100, 5100 And 4100 Series Workstation Graphics Review: Polaris Goes Pro [Updated]

Name: Radeon Pro WX 7100
Brand: Radeon

by Marco Chiappetta — Tuesday, December 20, 2016, 10:50 AM EDT

How We Configured Our Test Systems: We tested the professional graphics cards in this article on an Intel X99-based motherboard powered by an Intel Core i7-5960X octal-core processor and 16GB of Corsair DDR4 RAM. The first thing we did when configuring the test system was enter the UEFI and set all values to their "high performance" default settings and disable any integrated peripherals that wouldn't be put to use. The memory's X.M.P. profile was enabled to ensure optimal memory performance and the solid state drive was formatted and Windows 10 Professional x64 was installed. When the installation was complete, we fully updated the OS and installed all of the drivers, applications, and benchmark tools necessary to complete our tests.

HotHardware's Test System

Intel Core i7 Powered

Hardware Used:
Intel Core i7-5960X
(3GHz, Octa-Core)
Asus X99 Deluxe
(Intel X99 Chipset)

NVIDIA Quadro M2000
AMD FirePro W4300
AMD Radeon Pro WX 4100
AMD Radeon Pro WX 5100
AMD Radeon Pro WX 7100

16GB Corsair DDR4-2133
OCZ Vertex 4
Integrated Audio
Integrated Network

Relevant Software:
Windows 10 Pro x64
AMD Radeon Pro v16 Beta
AMD FirePro v15.20 Beta
NVIDIA Quadro Drivers v355.98

Benchmarks Used:
SPECviewperf 12.0.2
LuxMark v3.1
Cinebench R15
SiSoft SANDRA 2016

SiSoft SANDRA 2016 SP2

Video Shader Performance Test

First up, we have the Video Shader Compute benchmark built into SiSoft SANDRA 2016. This test performs a series of single and double-precision floating point operations on the GPU and reports the average speed of calculations.

The Polaris-based Radeon Pro WX 4100, WX 5100, and WX 7100 cards performed well in these tests, clearly outpacing the NVIDIA Quadro M2000 and previous-gen AMD FirePro W4300.

Tags: AMD, Radeon, graphics, GPU, polaris, (nasdaq:amd), radeon pro wx

Marco Chiappetta

Marco's interest in computing and technology dates all the way back to his early childhood. Even before being exposed to the Commodore P.E.T. and later the Commodore 64 in the early ‘80s, he was interested in electricity and electronics, and he still has the modded AFX cars and shop-worn soldering irons to prove it. Once he got his hands on his own Commodore 64, however, computing became Marco's passion. Throughout his academic and professional lives, Marco has worked with virtually every major platform from the TRS-80 and Amiga, to today's high end, multi-core servers. Over the years, he has worked in many fields related to technology and computing, including system design, assembly and sales, professional quality assurance testing, and technical writing. In addition to being the Managing Editor here at HotHardware for close to 15 years, Marco is also a freelance writer whose work has been published in a number of PC and technology related print publications and he is a regular fixture on HotHardware’s own Two and a Half Geeks webcast. - Contact: marco(at)hothardware(dot)com