Radeon Pro W6800 Review: AMD RDNA 2-Infused Workstation Muscle
AMD Radeon Pro W6800: GPGU Crypto, Image Processing and Rendering Benchmarks
How We Configured Our Test Systems: We tested the professional graphics cards represented in this article on a MSI X570 Godlike motherboard, equipped with a Ryzen 9 5950X and 16GB of G.SKILL DDR4 RAM clocked at 3,200MHz. The first thing we did when configuring the test system was enter the UEFI and set all values to their "high performance" defaults, then we disabled any integrated peripherals that wouldn't be put to use, and enabled Resizable BAR. The memory's clock was dialed in to its optimal performance settings using its XMP profile and the solid state drive was then formatted and Windows 10 Professional x64 was installed and fully updated. When the Windows installation was complete, we installed all of the drivers, applications and benchmark tools necessary to complete our tests.
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| Hardware Used: AMD Ryzen 9 5950X (3.4GHz - 4.9GHz, 16-Core) MSI X570 Godlike (AMD X570 Chipset) 16GB G.SKILL DDR4-3200 Samsung SSD 970 EVO Integrated Audio Integrated Network NVIDIA Quadro RTX 4000 AMD Radeon Pro WX 8200 AMD Radeon Pro W5700 AMD Radeon Pro W6800 |
Relevant Software: Windows 10 Pro x64 AMD Radeon Pro v21.Q1 NVIDIA Quadro Drivers v466.11 Benchmarks Used: SPECviewperf 2020 LuxMark v4 Blender v2.92 SiSoft SANDRA 2021 VRMark Blackmagic RAW Speed Test IndigoBench 3DMark DXR Feature Test |
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The new Radeon Pro W6800 significantly outperformed all of the other GPUs we tested in this benchmark, by a wide margin. It was over 2.45X faster than the second place finisher, Radeon Pro W5700. We wish we had a Quadro RTX 5000 or Ampere-based pro-vis GPU available for testing, but unfortunately did not have either on hand.
SANDRA's various Cryptography-related benchmarks also had the new new Radeon Pro W6800 finishing well out in front of the other GPUs in every portion of the test.
LuxMark is a cross-platform, OpenCL-accelerated 3D rendering benchmark. It's a tool based on the open source LuxRender physically-based spectral rendering engine, which accurately models the transportation of light and supports high dynamic range. LuxRender features a number of material types to allow rendering of photo-realistic and artistic scenes. LuxRender is free software, licensed under the GPL, that offers plugins for packages like Blender, Maya, Cinema 4D and 3DS Max.
The Radeon Pro W6800 significantly outperformed all of the other GPUs in both of the Luxmark scenes we tested as well. It finished nearly 73% ahead of the next-fastest Radeon Pro W5700.
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LuxMark is a cross-platform, OpenCL-accelerated 3D rendering benchmark. It's a tool based on the open source LuxRender physically-based spectral rendering engine, which accurately models the transportation of light and supports high dynamic range. LuxRender features a number of material types to allow rendering of photo-realistic and artistic scenes. LuxRender is free software, licensed under the GPL, that offers plugins for packages like Blender, Maya, Cinema 4D and 3DS Max.
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IndigoBench is based on Indigo 4's advanced rendering engine and offers both CPU and GPU rendering modes for its two built-in models. The standalone benchmark is available for Windows, MacOS, and Linux and outputs results in M/Samples per second.
The Radeon Pro W6800 nearly doubled the performance of the Quadro RTX 4000 in the more taxing IndigoBench Bedroom scene, and once again, outran all of the other cards by a wide margin.
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