AMD Radeon Pro W5700 Professional Graphics Card Review

1. Introduction2. AMD Radeon Pro W5700 Specifications3. NVIDIA Quadro RTX 4000, 5000, 60004. Testing Methodology5. Cinebench R156. SPECviewperf 137. VRMark Advanced Edition8. OpenCL9. Power and Temperature10. Closing Thoughts11. View All Pages

We will mainly be testing the W5700 against the WX 7100, WX 8200 and NVIDIA Quadro RTX 4000, but we thought it would be good to look at the full Quadro RTX range as a background.

The Quadro RTX 4000 is a single-width card, whilst the RTX 5000 and 6000 take up two expansion slots like the W5700.

You could be deceived into thinking the RTX 4000 has some great similarities to the W5700, since both have 36 compute units and 2,304 cores. But the differing architectures mean that you can't make a direct comparison. In the past, AMD has needed more Stream Processors to provide similar performance to a given number of CUDA cores, and the RTX 4000 also runs its cores at a considerably lower clock.

The RTX 4000 also only offers 416GB/sec memory bandwidth from its GDDR6 memory, due to a slightly lower clock speed compared to the W5700.

Either way, with the RTX 4000 costing close to £1,000 inc VAT, and the R5700 costing $799, if the latter can provide competitive performance with the same level of professional support, the RTX 4000 will have some questions to answer.

GPU	NVIDIA Quadro RTX 4000	NVIDIA Quadro RTX 5000	NVIDIA Quadro RTX 6000
Compute Units	36	48	72
CUDA Cores	2,304	3,072	4,608
GPU Architecture / Variant	Turing / TU104	Turing / TU104	Turing / TU102
Base Clock	1,005 MHz	1,620MHz	1,440MHz
GPU Boost Clock	1,545MHz	1,815MHz	1,770MHz
Total Video memory	8GB GDDR6	16GB GDDR6	24GB GDDR6
Memory Clock (Effective)	1,625 (13,000) MHz	1,750 (14,000) MHz	1,750 (14,000) MHz
Memory Bandwidth	416 GB/sec	448 GB/sec	672 GB/sec
Bus Width	256-bit	256-bit	384-bit
Manufacturing Process	12nm	12nm	12nm
TDP	160 W	230 W	260 W
Display Outputs	3 x DisplayPort 1.4, 1 x USB-C	4 x DisplayPort 1.4, 1 x USB-C	4 x DisplayPort 1.4, 1 x USB-C
Display Resolution	4 @ 4096×2160 @ 120Hz 4 @ 5120×2880 @ 60Hz 1 @ 7680×4320 @ 60Hz	4 @ 4096×2160 @ 120Hz 4 @ 5120×2880 @ 60Hz 1 @ 7680×4320 @ 60Hz	4 @ 4096×2160 @ 120Hz 4 @ 5120×2880 @ 60Hz 1 @ 7680×4320 @ 60Hz
Software API Support	DirectX 12, OpeGL 4.6, OpenCL 1.2, Vulkan 1.1, CUDA 7.5	DirectX 12, OpeGL 4.6, OpenCL 1.2, Vulkan 1.1, CUDA 7.5	DirectX 12, OpeGL 4.6, OpenCL 2.0, Vulkan 1.1, CUDA 7.5

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