AMD Radeon Professional W7500 Evaluation

Uncooked horsepower is usually a very powerful issue in the case of workstation graphics playing cards, however it’s not the one issue price contemplating. Energy, dimension, warmth output, and value are all key concerns as nicely. Whereas the AMD Radeon Professional W7500 isn’t the quickest choice round, it excels in all of those different areas. At $429, the W7500 is among the least costly present workstation playing cards available on the market. This tantalizing value together with its different attributes make it an alluring choice for individuals who want workstation efficiency on a finances.

The Radeon Professional W7500 is predicated on the AMD Navi 33 GPU die, which is identical GPU core used contained in the AMD Radeon RX 7600 and the Radeon Professional W7600. In whole, this GPU has 2,048 streaming processors, 128 TMUs (Texture Mapping Models), 64 ROPs (Raster Operation Processors), 64 AI accelerators, and 32 ray accelerators, all of that are lively and obtainable on each the Radeon RX 7600 and the Radeon Professional W7600.

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After all, the Radeon Professional W7500 ships with a few of these assets disabled, dropping its core depend down barely to 1,792 streaming processors, 112 TMUs, 64 ROPs, 56 AI accelerators, and 28 ray accelerators. Clock velocity can be diminished in contrast with the Radeon RX 7600 and the Radeon Professional W7600, with the Radeon Professional W7500 coming clocked at 1,500MHz with a lift clock of 1,700MHz.

The reminiscence interface has been stored the identical on all three of those playing cards, however the Radeon Professional W7500 nonetheless comes up a bit quick right here in contrast with the Radeon Professional W7600 and the Radeon RX 7600. All three playing cards had been designed with a 128-bit connection to 8GB of GDDR6 video RAM. The velocity at which the Radeon Professional W7500’s RAM operates is considerably decrease than its counterparts, nevertheless, giving it peak reminiscence bandwidth of simply 172GB per second in contrast with the Radeon Professional W7600’s peak bandwidth of 288GB per second.

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These reductions in {hardware} assets, clock velocity, and bandwidth are sure to hamper the Radeon Professional W7500’s efficiency and push it nicely beneath the Radeon Professional W7600. We have discovered some benefits to this example, nevertheless, as this additionally pushes down energy consumption, which in time period reduces warmth manufacturing. This enabled AMD to create the Radeon Professional W7500 and not using a PCIe energy connector, because it’s merely pointless. The cardboard is ready to attract all the facility it wants from the motherboard’s PCIe slot.

This allowed AMD to cut back the size of the Radeon Professional W7500 to simply 8.5 inches moderately than the 9.5 inches of the Radeon Professional W7600. This distinction doesn’t change a lot in all fact, however does assist to chop prices some and could also be advantageous in some cramped PC instances.

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Apart from that, the Radeon Professional W7500 is general fairly much like the Radeon Professional W7600, with a single-slot thermal answer with only one fan. The Radeon Professional W7500 additionally has 4 DisplayPort 2.1 ports on its rear I/O panel with assist for a single 8K monitor or two excessive refresh-rate 4K shows. AV1 encoding and decoding assist can be built-in, together with 12-bit show colour output assist for content material creation functions.

Take a look at Setup and Spec Comparability

The system I used to check the Radeon Professional W7500 was our present GPU take a look at mattress that was first assembled in 2022. It contains a stock-clocked Intel Core i9-12900K processor on an Asus ROG Maximus Z690 Hero motherboard. The processor is cooled by a Corsair Hydro Sequence H100X water cooler, and it has entry to 32GB of Corsair Vengeance DDR5 RAM clocked at 5,600MHz.

The facility provide on this system is a Corsair HX1500, rated to deal with 1,500 watts of energy, and all assessments had been carried out inside Home windows 11 Professional with all the newest updates put in.

From the chart, you may see that the Radeon Professional W7500 is missing fairly a bit on a number of fronts from the opposite playing cards that we examined. Naturally, this exhibits in our take a look at charts as nicely, with the Radeon Professional W7500 constantly on the backside. This shouldn’t be considered as an issue or design flaw of the Radeon Professional W7500, although. One thing must be on the underside, and, on this scenario, the Radeon Professional W7500 is actually designed to be that factor.

The Radeon Professional W7500 ought to ship some efficiency enhancements over AMD’s last-gen Radeon Professional 6000-series playing cards, in accordance with AMD, however we didn’t have one in every of these playing cards available for back-testing. The most important benefits the Radeon Professional W7500 has, nevertheless, are its diminished energy draw, warmth output, bodily footprint, and price.

Artificial Exams

Artificial take a look at outcomes all the time have to be thought of fastidiously, as they aren’t consultant of true real-world workloads, however they nonetheless will help us to check particular features of a card. 3DMark has a number of assessments rolled into it which might be largely meant to check gaming graphics playing cards, however its Port Royal take a look at will help to point out us how nicely the cardboard’s ray-tracing {hardware} performs. Equally, Luxmark is focused at testing GPGPU efficiency, and Adobe’s Premiere Professional assessments each rendering and GPGPU efficiency.

The Radeon Professional W7500 fell to the underside of the chart in all these assessments; get used to seeing it in that spot, as this state of affairs persists throughout a lot of the remainder of the charts. Bear in mind, that is to be anticipated for the value and energy profile.

SPECworkstation 3.1

The assessments in SPECworkstation 3.1 give the Radeon Professional W7500 a uncommon alternative to shine, because it’s designed to particularly take a look at workstation playing cards in numerous totally different eventualities.

In most of those assessments, the Radeon Professional W7500 was nonetheless the slowest choice, however it managed to tug forward of the Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090 within the snx-03 (Siemens’ NX 8.0 CAD) take a look at. In a couple of different assessments, the Radeon Professional W7500 drew considerably close to the RTX 4090. The RTX 4090 was nonetheless quicker general however its lead narrowed to a 43% benefit in medical-02, a 38% benefit in sw-04 (Solidworks), and a bonus of simply 13% in catia-05 (Dassault Systémes’ Catia).

That won’t appear spectacular, however when you think about that the RTX 4090 prices $1,599 in contrast with the Radeon Professional W7500’s $429, it begins to look a bit extra so. Workstation playing cards are designed so that you could use a number of playing cards collectively in a single system, and including a second or third Radeon Professional W7500 would seemingly give the Radeon Professional W7500 the benefit in these assessments whereas nonetheless costing a great deal much less.

AIDA64 GPGPU Exams

One other extremely helpful take a look at for each workstation playing cards and graphics playing cards alike is AIDA64’s GPGPU take a look at. This software assessments a number of elements of a graphics card and might be deeply informative.

The Radeon Professional W7500 remained steadfast on the backside of the charts for all of those assessments, however the outcomes nonetheless give us a transparent thought of how the cardboard would carry out in encryption, floating level, and different workloads.

Recreation Exams

Video games are computationally demanding, which makes them wonderful for testing a card’s uncooked efficiency potential, even when that is not at all a gaming card.

For a contemporary card that doesn’t want a PCIe energy connection, the Radeon Professional W7500’s efficiency numbers had been spectacular. Positive, it was slower than the opposite playing cards we examined, however it nonetheless achieved playable body charges at 1080p with maxed settings in F1 22, and this recreation was playable at 1440p with FSR enabled, too. Complete Conflict: Three Kingdoms was additionally playable at 1080p and 1440p with maxed settings. These outcomes make me want we’d get a finances client model of an AMD graphics card for gaming just like the Radeon Professional W7500, however in the mean time that appears unlikely.

Energy Consumption

I examined the facility of the GPU take a look at mattress utilizing a Kill-A-Watt wall meter with the intention to achieve some thought of how a lot energy consumption every card consumes. This isn’t actual, because the figures included the facility consumption of the processor, RAM, and the remainder of the system elements, however as solely the graphics card was modified between assessments, a lot of the distinction in energy draw will probably be all the way down to the cardboard being examined.

This take a look at is among the few by which the Radeon Professional W7500 excelled, with the cardboard consuming scarce little energy through the AIDA64 GPGPU take a look at. Complete system energy peaked at 149 watts throughout that take a look at, which is comparatively low. It drew a fraction of the facility of most different playing cards, with even the Radeon Professional W7600 consuming a good bit extra.

Verdict:

The Radeon Professional W7500 was designed to be AMD’s budget-friendly choice in its Radeon Professional 7000 collection of workstation playing cards, however with this comes a number of different incentives that make the Radeon Professional W7500 a compelling buy. If you’re solely targeted on efficiency outcomes, different playing cards just like the Radeon W7600 or a gaming-first GPU just like the RTX 4090 could stand out as higher choices, and relying in your workload that could possibly be appropriate.

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If that you must pack extra horsepower right into a compact system that can run workstation functions, nevertheless, the Radeon Professional W7500 then turns into an interesting answer. Its single-slot compact design makes it extra interesting for a majority of these methods which have little room for including playing cards and restricted cooling potential. These methods usually have comparatively low-wattage energy provides, too, which makes the Radeon Professional W7500’s comparatively low energy draw doubly nicely suited.

We can also’t ignore its $429 value level, which makes it a extremely inexpensive choice for finances workstation methods. This low value, coupled with the compact dimension of the cardboard, makes the W7500 particularly nicely suited to including additional playing cards right into a system, too, which will help to spice up efficiency. We’ve little question that the AMD Radeon Professional W7500 is a little bit of a distinct segment product focused at a particular a part of the market. However, for these edge instances, it is nicely price contemplating.