<\/noscript> <\/p>\nThe GeForce RTX 4080 obliterates the brand-new Radeon Pro W7900 and W7800 by cutting render times in half and less than half, respectively. The top-tier RTX 6000 Ada does walk all over the competition, but also costs double.<\/p>\n
As expected, the Radeon RX 7900XTX edges out the Radeon Pro W7900 by a slim margin \u2013 making it a decent option for those who want a lower price point at the cost of VRAM, workstation drivers, and workstation GPU support.<\/p>\n
But sadly, none of the AMD Radeon parts come close to beating NVIDIA\u2019s current offerings in Redshift. Even NVIDIA\u2019s RTX A6000, which launched back in December 2020, comes out on top \u2013 beating the Radeon PRO W7900 easily.<\/p>\n
<\/noscript> <\/p>\nRedshift has stated that AMD\u2019s Ray Tracing hardware isn\u2019t being used optimally \u2018yet.\u2019 This is probably a result of HIPify catering to CUDA translation, and not helping so much when it comes to NVIDIA\u2019s OptiX framework for RT.<\/p>\n
Hopefully, things will improve? But since we can\u2019t really assess what sort of improvement there will be or if there will be any at all, I\u2019d recommend shopping based on the chart above for now. As of now, AMD's performance in Redshift sits somewhere near an RTX 3080.<\/p>\n
<\/span>Radeon Blender GPU Benchmark: OptiX vs. HIP<\/span><\/h2>\nSaying Blender\u2019s OptiX implementation is done well would be like calling the Great Wall of China a good fence. So, if AMD's RT hardware isn't being used optimally yet, it really has no chance at competing with NVIDIA in this particular workload.<\/p>\n
<\/noscript> <\/p>\nThe results aren\u2019t too much of a surprise.<\/p>\n
Using OptiX on Blender is pretty much a cheat code for NVIDIA GPUs.<\/p>\n
AMD\u2019s offerings flounder in the distance \u2013 easily getting wrecked by even the 2\u20133-year-old NVIDIA RTX A6000 (I detest NVIDIA's workstation GPU naming scheme\u2026).<\/p>\n
As for top-tier products like RTX 4090 and RTX 6000 Ada, they\u2019re just in a league of their own, competing amongst themselves.<\/p>\n
If you\u2019re using Blender, I\u2019d still stick to NVIDIA until things improve on the AMD side.<\/p>\n
<\/span>Radeon Pro Adobe After Effects and Premiere Pro Benchmarks<\/span><\/h2>\nAdobe\u2019s suite of applications has always heavily favored NVIDIA, and unfortunately, the trend doesn\u2019t seem to have shifted even now.<\/p>\n
<\/noscript> <\/noscript> <\/p>\nWhen you account for the price, the performance on PugetBench isn\u2019t too <\/strong>shabby. For example, you have to spend double the money to gain 20% additional performance when moving from the Radeon PRO W7900 to NVIDIA\u2019s top-tier workstation GPU \u2013 the RTX 6000 Ada (again\u2026the names).<\/p>\nIf the Adobe suite is part of your workflow, and you need a workstation GPU<\/strong> for other applications like Solidworks, these Radeon PRO GPUs are a solid choice. However, if a mainstream GPU will do the job, I\u2019d just grab an RTX 4080<\/strong> instead of considering AMD\u2019s Radeon RX 7900XTX.<\/p>\n<\/span>Time to Seriously Consider AMD Radeon for Workstations?<\/span><\/h2>\nIt doesn\u2019t look like we can ignore AMD\u2019s workstation GPUs in a professional workflow anymore as the apps we\u2019ve benched above are the ones Alex uses as part of his CG workflow (in addition to C4D). All the apps held up well and we didn\u2019t encounter any instability or crashes during our testing.<\/p>\n
If your workload doesn't involve heavy use of Blender, these new Radeon GPUs are a solid choice. But if you do primarily work on Blender, just pay the NVIDIA tax and grab an RTX card (until things improve).<\/p>\n
<\/noscript> <\/p>\nHIPify, at least, has allowed Radeon GPUs to compete with their NVIDIA counterparts, even if performance isn\u2019t there yet. I would say this launch and the slow rollout of support for Radeon graphics cards bodes well for the workstation market.<\/p>\n
Still, any of us who\u2019ve worked on large projects know that a rock-solid workstation is worth its weight in gold.<\/p>\n
With just a few days to assess these Radeon PRO GPUs, it\u2019s impossible for us to get a better feel for these GPUs in a professional setting. So, as an experiment, Alex will be switching to the Radeon PRO W7900 Graphics card on his primary workstation (it replaces an RTX 4080) for a month.<\/strong><\/p>\nWe\u2019ll be posting more details about AMD\u2019s new Radeon PRO lineup and how HIP-translated apps hold up in more demanding, real-world scenes rather than relatively light benchmark scenes, sometime next month.<\/p>\n
<\/span>Verdict?<\/span><\/h3>\nFor now, the Radeon PRO W7900 and W7800 undercut NVIDIA by a decent margin while also expanding Radeon's support in popular professional applications. But it also lags behind the products that it undercuts. That's an okay<\/em> product in my book.<\/p>\nSupport is a good-enough first step.<\/p>\n
If AMD can deliver excellent price-to-performance in subsequent generations, it has the workstation market in the bag.<\/p>\n
At the moment however, Nvidia still reigns supreme, and a discounted RTX A6000 would be the far superior choice<\/strong>. Although I'm pretty sure the Radeon PRO W7900 will come down in price quickly, I can't help but feel that AMD missed an opportunity here. If they had priced their parts at $3500 and $2000, it would have been a very easy recommendation.<\/p>\nAs it stands, I would consider the Radeon PRO W7900 and W7800 ‘okay'<\/em> products. Nothing's too exciting about them. They don't move the current market's price-to-performance chart at all, and don't offer anywhere close to class-leading performance.<\/p>\nHowever, what's exciting is the expanding support for Radeon GPUs in apps that have always been NVIDIA-only. <\/strong><\/p>\nSo, what do you think? How do you feel about this launch? Let us know in the comments!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Every GPU review we\u2019ve done over the past few years for workstation use has always been accompanied by a sickening sidenote \u2013 NVIDIA offers better support for Pro apps. Well, is this finally the one where we, for once, DON\u2019T have to say it? I certainly hope so. Introducing the AMD Radeon PRO W7900 and...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2334,"featured_media":22644,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[74,193],"tags":[116,118],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/g100.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22642"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/g100.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/g100.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/g100.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/g100.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22642"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/g100.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22673,"href":"https:\/\/g100.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22642\/revisions\/22673"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/g100.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/g100.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/g100.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/g100.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}