Today in the lab we have an AMD Radeon Pro WX 8200 professional workstation graphics card, this new line up of GPU’s based on AMD’s Vega architecture announced at SIGGRAPH last August. The AMD Radeon Pro WX 8200 includes 8GB of HBM2 ECC memory that gives 512 GB/s Memory Bandwidth on a 2,048-bit interface. The WX 8200 runs 3,584 Stream Processors (56 Compute Units) and can deliver Half Precision (FP16) 21.5 TFLOPS, Single Precision (FP32) 10.75 TFLOPS and Double Precision (FP64) 672 GFLOPS which is impressive. For those that are security minded, the WX 8200 also features a dedicated AMD Secure Processor which forges a secure world in the GPU for trusted applications. In our review, we are going to take a look at the graphics processor, and then take a look at its performance.

Key Features and Specifications

Here are the key specifications for the AMD Radeon Pro WX 8200:

Graphics Core Next Stream Processors 3584 (56 Compute Units) Memory Size 8 GB HBM2 Memory Bandwidth 512 GB/s Memory Interface 2048-Bit Display Outputs (4x) Mini-DisplayPort 1.41 Display Output Support (@ 60Hz) 4 @ 1920×1080 4 @ 3840×2160 3 @ 5120×2880 1 @ 7680×4320 Video Acceleration HEVC Encode (up to 4K) HEVC Decode (up to 4K) Supported APIs DirectX® 122, OpenGL 4.5, OpenCL™ 2.0, Vulkan® 1.1, Shader Model 5.1 Max Power Consumption 230 W Form Factor 4.4” x 10.5” (H x L); Double Slot Supported Operating Systems (64-bit) Microsoft® Windows® 10 Microsoft® Windows® 7 Linux®

Some of the key features that AMD highlights with the card are:

AMD Radeon VR Ready Creator

High Bandwidth Cache Controller (HBCC)

Error-Correcting Code (ECC) Memory Support3

10-bit Color Depth Support

EDID Emulation Support

External Genlock/Frame Lock Sync Support

AMD DirectGMA Support

Display Output Post Processing (DOPP)

Some of these features, like ECC memory, are a big deal in certain industries. They are also items that NVIDIA has on many higher-cost cards in their Quadro line. If you need this level of performance and ECC memory is a requirement, AMD has an intriguing value here.

A close look at the AMD Radeon Pro WX 8200

The AMD Radeon Pro WX 8200 appears like a typical reference dual-slot GPU with a standard blower type air-cooler. You can see that our example is missing some of the branding as it is an AMD reference sample.

The AMD Radeon Pro WX 8200 has a length of 10.5 inches that matches other cards of this type; it is not overly long and should fit a wide variety of different cases, it is a dual-slot card so it will take up two x16 PCIe slots on your motherboard.

Let us turn the card over and take a look at the back of the WX 8200.

The back of the WX 8200 includes a back-plate that covers the bulk of the card. Not only does the black-plate cover electronics for protection, but we have also found in other GPU’s that this aids in cooling the GPU by spreading heat across its surface.

Two power ports, 1x 6-Pin, 1x 8-Pin connectors are needed to run the WX 8200. These connectors located at the back of the GPU, they do require space for the cables and connectors, be sure to allow for this when selecting a case for your workstation.

Video outputs on the WX 8200 are 4x Mini-DisplayPort 1.4 ports giving the WX 8200 support for AMD Eyefinity technology for multi-display setups. While we mostly use GPU’s and monitors that have full-size DisplayPort and HDMI ports in the lab, the Mini-DisplayPort work fine with appropriate adapters to fit whatever port we decided to use. We still prefer having other display output options if possible since adapters can be tricky.

Testing the AMD Radeon Pro WX 8200

GPU-Z shows the primary stats of our WX 8200. The Vega GPU clocks in at 1500 MHz and HBM2 Memory at 1000 MHz. Pixel Fillrates run at 96 GPixels/s, and Texture Fillrate comes in at 336.0 GTexel/s.

Next, we are going to look at performance before moving onto our final thoughts on the card.