A Look At AMD’s Radeon Pro WX 3100 Workstation Graphics Card

Gaming is generally not a big focus for professional GPU lines, but the fact of the matter is, they can game. That especially applies to the top-tier cards on the market, as they all perform similarly to the top-tier gaming cards from the same vendor of the same generation. So what’s the caveat with gaming on workstation cards? A lack of game-specific optimizations.

While on the GeForce or Radeon (non-Pro) side, the companies constantly roll out updates that improve general performance in gaming or performance specific to one title, Quadro and Radeon Pro drivers don’t have the same granularity where gaming’s concerned.

To get a quick gauge on the performance of our workstation GPU collection in gaming, we use Futuremark’s 3DMark and Unigine’s Superposition.

Futuremark 3DMark

Despite the WX 5100 being spec’d better than the WX 4100, both cards perform the same in 3DMark, or at least just about the same. As I mentioned earlier, the WX 3100 is built around the same GPU as the RX 550 on the gamer side, a GPU that would enable modest 1080p gaming. Similar performance could be expected from this Pro card.

Unigine Superposition

Superposition agrees that the WX 5100 and WX 4100 perform the same, but more importantly in the context of this review, the WX 3100 screams at its price point.