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Final year, AMD launched its WX 9100, a Vega-based Radeon Pro GPU with substantially higher performance and more ROPs than its previous GPUs, but a significantly higher price tag every bit well, at $2,200. Today, the company is following up that launch with a substantially cheaper WX 8200 at less than half the price.

The WX 8200 packs three,584 GPU cores instead of 4,096, analogous to AMD'southward Vega 56 consumer GPU, with 64 ROPS and slightly faster (2.0Gbps, up from 1.89Gbps) HBM2. Memory capacity is halved to 8GB, downwardly from 16GB. Unmarried and half-precision performance are modestly lower (x.8TFLOPS versus 12.3TFLOPs and 21.5TFLOPS versus 24.6TFLOPS, respectively).

What nosotros accept here, then, is an attempt by AMD to capture a more competitive position for its professional Vega cardsSEEAMAZON_ET_135 See Amazon ET commerce by coming in well beneath previous price points. The card should be well-aligned given the competitive marketplace. A Quadro P4000, for example, is based on GP104, simply fields just i,792 GPU cores in a configuration that'due south actually a fleck below the GTX 1070 as far as cores, texture mapping units, and ROPS. It sells for $800.

Given that the Vega 56 is typically measured as being virtually 8 percent faster than a GTX 1070 when running at a slightly lower clock speed, the new WX 8200 would be competitive if we were talking near consumer markets — but nosotros aren't. And in professional markets, functioning has tended to favor Nvidia overall, cheers to optimization strategies and long-fourth dimension professional software optimization expertise. That's a nut that AMD has been trying to crack for years at present, with varying degrees of success.

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AMD is claiming that the new WX 8200 is a match for Nvidia's P4000 and P5000 in applications like Adobe Premiere Pro, Maya, Nuke, Radeon Pro Render (its ain rendering software) and the Blender Cycles engine. Its operation in other applications does not stack upwardly also, though it can be said to generally well with the P4000, with several wins and losses confronting that GPU.

AMD has been trying to muscle in on the software side, with new partnerships and software investments, as well as making a push into AI and machine learning. The company's overall engagement on the professional and HPC sides of the GPU business hasn't historically matched Nvidia, but at that place'll be a fresh chance to try again at 7nm, with its first line of Vega products congenital on that process node and specifically intended for that market. The WX 8200 is expected to be on sale in early September and should exist bachelor for pre-order today at Newegg.

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