A performance benchmark for the AMD Radeon PRO W6800 has leaked out online which provides us with details about the specifications and performance of the upcoming workstation GPU lineup from AMD.
The benchmark result was spotted by Twitter user Leakbench which details the specifications of the upcoming graphics card. Recently AMD posted a video on its YouTube channel that is currently unlisted. According to the rumors, the video teases something big and points towards the Radeon Pro GPUs. AMD is due to reveal it’s Radeon Pro GPU based on Navi 21 called the Radeon W6800 and W6900X sometime soon.
In the leaked benchmark, the AMD Radeon PRO W6800 graphics card was tested in the Geekbench OpenCL test. It scored 137230 points which puts it above the Radeon RX 6800 and the NVIDIA RTX 3070 graphics cards in terms of OpenCL performance.
The benchmark was conducted using an AMD Ryzen 9 5900X system with 16 GB DDR4 memory. The Radeon PRO W6800 GPU features 32 GB of GDDR6 VRAM that operates across a 256-bit wide bus interface. Considering that AMD is using 16 Gbps chips on the RDNA 2 lineup, we can expect a bandwidth of 512 GB/s in addition to the 128 MB of Infinity Cache.
The W6800 has a total of 60 compute units which translate to 3840 stream processors. In the Geekbench benchmark, the CU count is shown as 30 which is wrong. The max core clock for the GPU was reported at 2.55 GHz.
Currently, the Radeon RX 6000 series gaming graphics cards have far better driver optimization than the currently unreleased Radeon Pro W6000 cards so that might explain the better performance, A picture of the AMD Radeon Pro GPU was also posted on Chinese Tech forums Chiphell a few days ago.
The Radeon Pro W6800 does end up faster than the Navi 21 based Radeon RX 6800. The Radeon Pro W6800 offers twice the memory size of its gaming siblings at up to 32 GB of VRAM. We will have to wait to see what AMD brings to the table with its Radeon Pro series of graphics cards.
