AMD’s Radeon Pro WX 3100 Finds Its Way Into HP’s Latest ZBook Mobile Workstations

AMD’s Radeon Pro series has just found another place to call home: the inside of HP’s ZBook 14u and 15u notebooks. These mobile workhorses are not targeting the high-end crowd, but HP promises to deliver more than enough performance to prevent frustrating roadblocks regardless of the kind of work you’re tackling. For GPU duties, AMD’s Radeon Pro WX 3100 can be found under-the-hood.

With this launch, AMD’s wording is interesting, as it refers to this particular WX 3100 as being “new”, when it technically isn’t. Or, there are two products with the exact same name that have the exact same number of cores (512), and this is just one big coincidence. The desktop WX 3100 pushes 1.25 TFLOPS single-precision, whereas this mobile counterpart scales that back to 1.07 TFLOPS.

AMD’s Radeon Pro WX 3100, in its desktop flavor

Also interesting, but probably only to me, is that AMD touts excellent support with Autodesk Revit with its WX 3100. Why I find this interesting is that AMD regularly name-drops the likes of Dassault and Siemens, and so forth, but an Autodesk mention isn’t nearly as common. Perhaps a direct mention here means that recent driver R&D has provided extra TLC to some products found in Autodesk’s portfolio.

Oh right – we’re talking about a notebook here, and a great-looking one for a mobile workstation. Beyond the GPU, perks worth highlighting about these ZBook include a built-in privacy screen and other security features, high-speed PCIe storage, quad-core Intel processors, Windows 10 Pro for Workstations, a 4K touch display, and up to 10 hours of battery-life.

To be clear, this isn’t some notebook series claiming to be bad ass just because it’s a mobile workstation that can churn through tough work while on-the-go. HP touts “industry-leading” durability with the ZBook, and while no one suggests you test for these conditions, drops, extreme temperatures, and sand should have no fatal effect. This sounds like the perfect kind of laptop to test rendering on while sky-diving into a desert (to be clear, I’m not offering myself up for this!).

More information on the WX 3100 mobile chip in particular can be had at AMD’s blog, while HP can help with a deeper look at the notebooks themselves. Currently, no release date is pegged, but HP is able to keep you informed.