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The AMD Ryzen Threadripper workstation has a bigger brother, the Armari Magnetar X64T-G3 FWL, which we review in depth here.

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To test out the Radeon Pro W5500 GPU, UK firm Armari provided one of its excellent Magentar X Series workstations with the following specification:ĪMD Ryzen Threadripper 3970X CPU (32-cores)ĪMD Radeon Pro Driver version – Enterprise 20.Q1 However, AMD claims a workstation powered by the W5500 actually consumes less electricity at the plug, in certain CAD-centric workflows.

Fitted with 5GB GDDR5X, they feature less memory but have a max power consumption of 75W, 50W less than the Radeon Pro W5500. It has since become a mainstay in many CAD-focused workstations.īoth the P2000 and P2200 are based on Pascal, and not the newer Turing architecture which powers Nvidia’s higher-end Quadro RTX GPUs.

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This CAD-focused GPU launched in Spring 2019 as an incremental update to 2017’s Quadro P2000. In terms of price point, the natural competitor to the Radeon Pro W5500 is the Nvidia Quadro P2200. We see it as the natural replacement for both the CAD-focused Radeon Pro WX 5100 (8GB) and the entry-level ‘VR Ready’ Radeon Pro WX 7100 (8GB), both of which are over three years old and are based on AMD’s 14nm Graphics Core Next (GCN) design. In terms of positioning, the Radeon Pro W5500 sits below the double height 205W Radeon Pro W5700. This isn’t really a big deal for CAD or design viz centric workflows, however, as having more bandwidth is unlikely to make any real difference to performance. The new interface standard is currently only available in workstations with 3rd Gen AMD Ryzen or AMD Ryzen Threadripper CPUs, but AMD’s graphics card will still work perfectly well in PCIe Gen 3-based Intel systems. The Radeon Pro W5500 is PCIe Gen 4 compatible, which offers double the bandwidth of PCIe Gen 3. With this spec, it should be compatible with almost all desktop workstations, apart from the Small Form Factor (SFF) models, which tend to take low profile graphics cards. The maximum power consumption is 125W and the board requires an external 6-pin connector, which is fed from the PSU. The single slot graphics card features 8GB GDDR6 memory and four DisplayPort 1.4 outputs to drive up to four 4K displays.

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The AMD Radeon Pro W5500 follows on from the Radeon Pro W5700 to become AMD’s second professional GPU based on its new 7nm ‘Navi’ RDNA architecture.

At $399, it might be priced like a professional GPU for CAD or BIM, but it’s significantly more powerful and can also be used for VR. Now with the release of the AMD Radeon Pro W5500 those with more limited budgets can also get on board. The ‘VR Ready’ Nvidia Quadro RTX 4000 and AMD Radeon Pro W5700 would certainly get you there but will set you back around £700 and typically take the cost of your workstation beyond £2,000. To use these GPU hungry applications effectively you’d have had to invest in a more powerful and more expensive GPU. If you currently own a sub £400 professional graphics card you probably won’t be getting the performance you need for real-time viz, especially at 4K resolution. Tools like Enscape, Lumion, Twinmotion, Unity, Unreal Engine, IrisVR, VR4CAD, eDrawings Professional and more will happily devour all the graphics processing power you throw at them.

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These applications are extremely GPU intensive and are not bottlenecked by the CPU in the same way that CAD software typically is. In architecture in particular, the use of real-time visualisation and Virtual Reality (VR) is on the rise. With top-end cards costing close to £5,000 you could end up wasting lots of money on graphics processing power you never use.īut workflows are changing. So, even if you got the most powerful workstation graphics card in the world, your 3D model still wouldn’t move more smoothly. In other words, 3D performance is bottlenecked by the CPU, not the GPU. The fact is, the majority of 3D design software is very CPU-limited.