RDNA2 For Workstation: AMD Radeon Pro W6600 & W6800 Review

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by Rob Williams on November 23, 2021 in Graphics & Displays

AMD has so far released two Radeon Pro models built around its RDNA2 architecture – W6600 and W6800 – and compared to the previous-gen, there’s a lot of improvement. In addition to faster performance in general, we see additions like hardware RT, as well as support for resizable BAR and variable rate shading. Let’s see how both cards fare in our gauntlet of tests.

Page 6 – Gaming: 3DMark, VRMark & Superposition

The primary focus of this Radeon Pro review is to tackle creative benchmarking, but since it’s been a while, we wanted to run each of the tested GPUs through our usual gamut of synthetic gaming benchmarks. We won’t offer any commentary here, since these results wouldn’t influence our final opinions in a meaningful way. Ultimately, neither workstation nor gaming cards have inherent advantages here, so the Radeon Pro W6800 behaves much like the RX 6800 – as we’d hope.

3DMark

UL 3DMark 1080p Fire Strike Graphics Score (AMD Radeon Pro W6800 and W6600)
UL 3DMark 4K Fire Strike Graphics Score (AMD Radeon Pro W6800 and W6600)
UL 3DMark 4K Time Spy Graphics Score (AMD Radeon Pro W6800 and W6600)
UL 3DMark DXR Ray Tracing (AMD Radeon Pro W6800 and W6600)
UL 3DMark Port Royal Ray Tracing Score (AMD Radeon Pro W6800 and W6600)
UL 3DMark Mesh Shaders (AMD Radeon Pro W6800 and W6600)
UL 3DMark Variable Rate Shading Tier 2 Score (AMD Radeon Pro W6800 and W6600)

VRMark

UL VRMark Cyan Room Performance (AMD Radeon Pro W6800 and W6600)
UL VRMark Blue Room Performance (AMD Radeon Pro W6800 and W6600)

Superposition

Unigine Superposition 1080p Extreme Performance (AMD Radeon Pro W6800 and W6600)
Unigine Superposition 4K Optimized Performance (AMD Radeon Pro W6800 and W6600)

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Rob Williams

Rob founded Techgage in 2005 to be an 'Advocate of the consumer', focusing on fair reviews and keeping people apprised of news in the tech world. Catering to both enthusiasts and businesses alike; from desktop gaming to professional workstations, and all the supporting software.

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