AMD Radeon PRO WX 9100: specs and benchmarks

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Summary

AMD started Radeon PRO WX 9100 sales 10 July 2017 at a recommended price of $1,599 . This is a GCN 5.0 architecture desktop card based on 14 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at designers. 16 GB of HBM2 memory clocked at 1.89 GHz are supplied, and together with 2048 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 483.8 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is dual-slot card attached via PCIe 3.0 x16 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 267 mm. One 6-pin and one 8-pin connectors are required, and power consumption is at 230 Watt.

It provides good gaming and benchmark performance at 33.88% of a leader's which is NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090.

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General info

Some basic facts about Radeon PRO WX 9100: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in performance ranking126
Value for money8.67
ArchitectureGCN 5.0 (2017−2020)
GPU code nameVega 10
Market segmentWorkstation
Release date10 July 2017 (6 years old)
Launch price (MSRP)$1,599
Current price$1880 (1.2x MSRP)of 168889 (A100 PCIe 80 GB)
Value for money

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

Technical specs

Radeon PRO WX 9100's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Radeon PRO WX 9100's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines / CUDA cores4096of 20480 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)
Core clock speed1200 MHzof 2610 (Radeon RX 6500 XT)
Boost clock speed1500 MHzof 3599 (Radeon RX 7990 XTX)
Number of transistors12,500 millionof 14400 (GeForce GTX 1080 SLI Mobile)
Manufacturing process technology14 nmof 4 (GeForce RTX 4080)
Power consumption (TDP)230 Wattof 2400 (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)
Texture fill rate384.0of 969.9 (H100 SXM5 96 GB)
Floating-point performance12,288 gflopsof 16384 (Radeon Pro Duo)

Size and compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Radeon PRO WX 9100 and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16
Length267 mm
Width2-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Memory

Parameters of memory installed on Radeon PRO WX 9100: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.

Memory typeHBM2
Maximum RAM amount16 GBof 128 (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory bus width2048 Bitof 19000 (GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB)
Memory clock speed1890 MHzof 22400 (GeForce RTX 4080)
Memory bandwidth483.8 GB/sof 3276 (Aldebaran)

Video outputs and ports

Types and number of video connectors present on Radeon PRO WX 9100. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.

Display Connectors6x mini-DisplayPort

API support

APIs supported by Radeon PRO WX 9100, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX12 (12_1)
Shader Model6.4
OpenGL4.6
OpenCL2.0
Vulkan1.1.125

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of Radeon PRO WX 9100. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.


Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark performance score. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

PRO WX 9100 33.88

Passmark

This is probably the most ubiquitous benchmark, part of Passmark PerformanceTest suite. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.

Benchmark coverage: 25%

PRO WX 9100 13192

GeekBench 5 OpenCL

Geekbench 5 is a widespread graphics card benchmark combined from 11 different test scenarios. All these scenarios rely on direct usage of GPU's processing power, no 3D rendering is involved. This variation uses OpenCL API by Khronos Group.

Benchmark coverage: 9%

PRO WX 9100 64388

GeekBench 5 Vulkan

Geekbench 5 is a widespread graphics card benchmark combined from 11 different test scenarios. All these scenarios rely on direct usage of GPU's processing power, no 3D rendering is involved. This variation uses Vulkan API by AMD & Khronos Group.

Benchmark coverage: 5%

PRO WX 9100 67932

Gaming performance

Let's see how good Radeon PRO WX 9100 is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in frames per second. Comparisons with game system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect reality inaccurately.

Relative perfomance

Overall Radeon PRO WX 9100 performance compared to nearest competitors among server video cards.


NVIDIA equivalent

According to our data, the closest NVIDIA alternative to Radeon PRO WX 9100 is Tesla P40, which is slower by 4% and lower by 12 positions in our ranking.

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