And in professional markets, performance has tended to favor Nvidia overall, thanks to optimization strategies and long-time professional software optimization expertise. Given that the Vega 56 is typically measured as being about 8 percent faster than a GTX 1070 when running at a slightly lower clock speed, the new WX 8200 would be competitive if we were talking about consumer markets - but we aren't.
A Quadro P4000, for example, is based on GP104, but fields just 1,792 GPU cores in a configuration that's actually a bit below the GTX 1070 as far as cores, texture mapping units, and ROPS. The card should be well-aligned given the competitive market. What we have here, then, is an attempt by AMD to capture a more competitive position for its professional Vega cards (Opens in a new window) by coming in well below previous price points. Single and half-precision performance are modestly lower (10.8TFLOPS versus 12.3TFLOPs and 21.5TFLOPS versus 24.6TFLOPS, respectively). Memory capacity is halved to 8GB, down from 16GB. The WX 8200 packs 3,584 GPU cores instead of 4,096, analogous to AMD's Vega 56 consumer GPU, with 64 ROPS and slightly faster (2.0Gbps, up from 1.89Gbps) HBM2. Today, the company is following up that launch with a substantially cheaper WX 8200 at less than half the price. Last year, AMD launched its WX 9100, a Vega-based Radeon Pro GPU with substantially higher performance and more ROPs than its previous GPUs, but a significantly higher price tag as well, at $2,200.
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