AMD announces Radeon Pro WX series GPUs-affordable graphics for content creation

[Djole123]

So as you know, AMD's vision today is to bring good performance to consumers. But don't worry, they have announces new Radeon Pro WX series GPUs which bring great performance for content creation at lower price, size and TDP.

 

So first off is the beefiest Polaris GPU you can get, the Radeon Pro WX 7100.

It features over five TFLOPS of compute performance in a single PCI-e packaging. This is one of the bonuses of workstation cards, since you can put multiple GPUs and not consume much power or heat. It's meant for VR content creation and it's price should be under 1000$.

 

Next up is the Radeon Pro WX 5100, a good card for video rendering and game developement.

As you can see it features over four TFLOPs of compute performance in a single slot, but shorter packaging.

 

And last but not least is the Radeon Pro WX 4100.

This is more of an SFF card where you need to put performance in tight cases. It's meant for CAD and other 3D rendering programs.

 

Note that they also released the Radeon Pro SSG, a complete mindblow, but it's already covered by zMeul so check out his post for more detail.

 

I have to say, good job AMD.

 

Source:

http://videocardz.com/62661/amd-announces-radeon-pro-wx-7100-gpu-designed-for-professional-vr-film-editing

[Atmos]

Not gonna lie.

I like the blue. Mayhaps its time to upgrade from my W7000s in the workstation to something new :3

will have to wait and see on actual gains though, money is tight and I'm not dying for an upgrade.

[Nup]

That is a very nice shade of blue alright... 

I really know little about these cards and the needs they pander to. Did they give any performance metrics? 

[rattacko123]

so basically professional versions of the rx 480, 470, and 460

[rattacko123]

1 minute ago, Nup said:

That is a very nice shade of blue alright... 

 

[ManIkWeet]

What's up with the blue?

 

It looks good but isn't AMD usually... red?

[rattacko123]

2 hours ago, ManIkWeet said:

What's up with the blue?

 

It looks good but isn't AMD usually... red?

its to resemble the "efficiency" of the new 14nm architecture

[bigneo]

Yo listen up here's a story
About a little guy that lives in a blue world
And all day and all night and everything he sees Is just blue
Like him inside and outside
Blue his GPU with a blue little fan
And a blue Cover
And everything is blue for him
And himself and everybody around
'Cause he ain't got nobody to listen

I'm Blue da ba dee da ba daa...

[NumLock21]

So those are the less expensive version of this

 

 

[Sparviero]

Which the OP already mentioned in the OP. So if you really want to see zmeul go full Simple Jack feel free.  

[Notional]

1 hour ago, bigneo said:

Yo listen up here's a story
About a little guy that lives in a blue world
And all day and all night and everything he sees Is just blue
Like him inside and outside
Blue his GPU with a blue little fan
And a blue Cover
And everything is blue for him
And himself and everybody around
'Cause he ain't got nobody to listen

I'm Blue da ba dee da ba daa...

[Djole123]

12 minutes ago, Sparviero said:

Which the OP already mentioned in the OP. So if you really want to see zmeul go full Simple Jack feel free.  

Well it was either to cover it and get my post locked or mention the thread that already covered it. So I went "Simple Jack" as you said because it was a better choice.

[sof006]

I've never seen a reference design from AMD that is blue. It looks pretty awesome not going to lie.

[Misanthrope]

1 slot low profile pcie? That's a dream come true for itx enthusiasts hopefully it performs! (FYI outside of a very expensive quadro the best you can get on that form factor today it's still like a 750)

[Sparviero]

16 minutes ago, Djole123 said:

Well it was either to cover it and get my post locked or mention the thread that already covered it. So I went "Simple Jack" as you said because it was a better choice.

No, I said zmeul was going simple Jack in the other thread. This thread is a good alternative to his histrionics. 

[Djole123]

5 minutes ago, Sparviero said:

No, I said zmeul was going simple Jack in the other thread. This thread is a good alternative to his histrionics. 

Oooooooooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhh I get it

[Notional]

11 minutes ago, Misanthrope said:

1 slot low profile pcie? That's a dream come true for itx enthusiasts hopefully it performs! (FYI outside of a very expensive quadro the best you can get on that form factor today it's still like a 750)

It's a Polaris 460 chip  So yeah could make a gaming card like that if they wanted. But with nice ITX cases today, most can fit a normal card though.

[TidaLWaveZ]

M.2 expandable memory is a brilliant idea if it's true and it all works out. Kudos.

 

(Now lets work on that price tag)

[Misanthrope]

12 minutes ago, Notional said:

It's a Polaris 460 chip  So yeah could make a gaming card like that if they wanted. But with nice ITX cases today, most can fit a normal card though.

Those are not what I call itx enthusiast cases though, I'm thinking cases like this:

 

[Nup]

6 hours ago, rattacko123 said:

-blue snip!-

Oh awesome! I'd heard about this shade of blue no idea that it was actually this one they used. Very cool stuff. Thanks for sharing

[Notional]

1 minute ago, Misanthrope said:

Those are not what I call itx enthusiast cases though, I'm thinking cases like this:

 

Ah yeah, but the performance in such a volume is so limited it's pointless. At that point a standard gaming oriented APU would be far superior for the job. With an external PSU, you could have a ZEN based APU system in such a box, that would hopefully be superior to the consoles, if they settle for 4 ZEN cores and a lot of Polaris CU's.

[Misanthrope]

1 minute ago, Notional said:

Ah yeah, but the performance in such a volume is so limited it's pointless. At that point a standard gaming oriented APU would be far superior for the job. With an external PSU, you could have a ZEN based APU system in such a box, that would hopefully be superior to the consoles, if they settle for 4 ZEN cores and a lot of Polaris CU's.

It's pointless right now but I think an i5 chip and this WX4100 would be a stronger performer than Zen and available a lot sooner than mid 2017 for Zen to be reasonably available and priced in stores though.

 

Plus there's actually other use cases like this one:

 

 

These are available on nearly every single office around the world. My office at work is even selling these types of desktop at just 60 bucks which gives you an ivy bridge i5. Pair it with this WX4100 and you've got the ultimate hand me down cheap system.

 

I get it is not very practical or has many uses but it's still nice to have Access to half height gpus cards imo.

[AlTech]

9 hours ago, Nup said:

That is a very nice shade of blue alright... 

I really know little about these cards and the needs they pander to. Did they give any performance metrics? 

No but the WX 7100 should have slightly worse hardware compared to an RX 480. (32 CUs vs 36 CUs)

 

the Wx 5100 should perform slightly worse than an RX 470 (28 CUs vs 32 CUs)

 

and the WX 4100 should perform around an RX 460 (16 CUs vs 16 CUs).

 

Of course the drivers will be different and cooling solution is different as well as TDP and VRAM.

[Prysin]

@Dackzy Here is some shit for you

 

Affordable CAD/CAE FirePro's

[Dackzy]

UHHHHH I would love to get my hands on one of those cards, maybe I will build another PC just for 3D work then.