AMD Radeon Pro WX 3200 vs AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT Comparison

The AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT and the AMD Radeon Pro WX 3200 sit at opposite ends of AMD's GPU lineup: one is an active, high-end RDNA 4.0 gaming card, the other an end-of-life Polaris-based professional card built for compact workstations. The database shows a decisive gulf between them, with the RX 9070 XT winning the single shared benchmark by a wide margin and holding major advantages in every recorded hardware metric. This comparison is not a close contest; it is a snapshot of two hardware generations and two product philosophies separated by process node, memory capacity, and raw compute capability.

Head-to-Head Benchmarks

Only one test appears in the database for both cards: Geekbench OpenCL. The RX 9070 XT scores 17,428 against the WX 3200's 11,228, a 55.2 percent win for the newer card. That is a decisive gap on a compute workload, and it comes despite the WX 3200's professional positioning. The OpenCL result favors the card with far more parallel hardware, and the specification gap explains it: 4096 shading units versus 640, and 48.66 TFLOPS of FP32 throughput versus 1.658 TFLOPS.

The broader benchmark record for each card reinforces the same conclusion, even where the tests do not overlap. The RX 9070 XT posts 7,260 in 3DMark Steel Nomad (DX12), 65,879 in Geekbench Vulkan, 26,795 in PassMark G3D, and 15,864 in PassMark GPU Compute. Its PassMark DirectX suite spans 353 in DirectX 9, 154 in DirectX 10, 292 in DirectX 11, and 78 in DirectX 12, plus 1,328 in PassMark G2D. The WX 3200 has no recorded results in any of those tests, so the only direct, number-for-number comparison available is the OpenCL one, and it goes entirely one way.

Context from each card's rival cluster adds perspective. The RX 9070 XT carries an average benchmark score of 13,543 and sits at the 55th percentile against all GPUs in the database, with its nearest rivals by average score including the AMD Radeon HD 7770M (13,536, 0.1 percent behind), the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570 (13,515, 0.2 percent behind), the NVIDIA P106-090 (13,470, 0.5 percent behind), and the AMD Radeon Pro 555 (13,407, 1 percent behind). The WX 3200 averages 11,228 and sits at the 50th percentile, with rivals including the AMD FirePro W4300 (11,225, a dead heat at 0 percent), the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M (11,261, 0.3 percent ahead of it), and the NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Max-Q and RTX PRO 6000D Blackwell Max-Q (both at 11,088, 1.3 percent behind). Note that these percentile placements reflect how the database normalizes across mixed test suites; they do not change the head-to-head outcome, where the RX 9070 XT's average score exceeds the WX 3200's by a clear margin.

Where Each One Wins

The RX 9070 XT wins every performance category in the recorded data. It wins the only shared benchmark by 55.2 percent, and its specification advantages translate directly into workload dominance. With 16 GB of GDDR6 on a 256-bit bus delivering 644.6 GB/s of bandwidth, it can handle datasets and texture workloads that would simply not fit in the WX 3200's 4 GB of GDDR5 with its 96.00 GB/s of bandwidth. Its 64 ray tracing cores enable workloads the WX 3200 cannot attempt at all, since the Polaris-based card has none. Its pixel rate of 380.2 GPixel/s and texture rate of 760.3 GTexel/s dwarf the WX 3200's 20.72 GPixel/s and 41.44 GTexel/s respectively, so any rendering, compute, or simulation task in the database's scope lands heavily in the newer card's favor.

The WX 3200's wins are physical and infrastructural rather than performance-based, and they are real. It is a single-slot card measuring 167 mm long and 69 mm tall, needs no external power connectors, draws only 65 W, and carries a suggested PSU of just 250 W. It also offers four mini-DisplayPort 1.4a outputs, a quad-display configuration aimed at multi-monitor professional setups, whereas the RX 9070 XT provides one HDMI 2.1b and three DisplayPort 2.1a outputs. For space-constrained systems where a dual-slot, 304 W card with two 8-pin connectors is not an option, the WX 3200 is the only one of the two that can physically fit the envelope. The data records these as the WX 3200's sole advantages: form factor, power draw, and display output count.

The Verdict

The RX 9070 XT is the pick for any workload measured in this database. It is faster in the one directly comparable test by 55.2 percent, it has roughly 29 times the FP32 compute throughput (48.66 TFLOPS versus 1.658 TFLOPS), four times the memory capacity (16 GB versus 4 GB), and nearly seven times the memory bandwidth (644.6 GB/s versus 96.00 GB/s). It is an active product with DirectX 12 Ultimate (12_2) and Vulkan 1.4 support, against the WX 3200's DirectX 12 (12_0) and Vulkan 1.3. For gaming, ray tracing, GPU compute, and modern API features, the decision is unambiguous.

The WX 3200 earns consideration only where the database shows constraints rather than performance: a single-slot, low-power, connector-free card driving four mini-DisplayPort monitors from a small form factor or modest system with a 250 W suggested PSU. It is end-of-life hardware built on GCN 4.0, and every performance signal in the data confirms its era. Users choosing between the two for anything performance-related should treat this as a one-sided result in favor of the RX 9070 XT.

FAQ

Q: Which card is faster in the shared benchmark? A: The RX 9070 XT. It scores 17,428 in Geekbench OpenCL versus the WX 3200's 11,228, a 55.2 percent advantage.

Q: How much more memory does the RX 9070 XT have? A: 16 GB of GDDR6 versus 4 GB of GDDR5, and its 644.6 GB/s of bandwidth far exceeds the WX 3200's 96.00 GB/s.

Q: Which card supports ray tracing? A: Only the RX 9070 XT, with 64 ray tracing cores. The WX 3200 has no ray tracing cores.

Q: Which card fits in tighter systems? A: The WX 3200. It is single-slot, 167 mm long and 69 mm tall, needs no power connectors, and has a 65 W TDP with a 250 W suggested PSU. The RX 9070 XT is dual-slot, draws 304 W, uses two 8-pin connectors, and calls for a 700 W suggested PSU.

Q: Are both cards still in production? A: No. The RX 9070 XT is listed as active, while the WX 3200 is end-of-life.

Q: What are each card's launch MSRPs? A: The RX 9070 XT had a launch MSRP of 599 USD, and the WX 3200 had a launch MSRP of 199 USD.

Architecture Differences

The architectural separation between these two cards spans roughly a decade of AMD design evolution. The RX 9070 XT uses the Navi 48 chip on the RDNA 4.0 architecture, fabricated at TSMC on a 4 nm process, packing 53,900 million transistors into a 357 mm² die for a density of 151.0M per mm². The WX 3200 uses the Polaris 23 chip on GCN 4.0, fabricated at GlobalFoundries on a 14 nm process, with 2,200 million transistors on a 103 mm² die at 21.4M per mm². That density difference, more than seven times higher on the newer card, is the foundation of the performance gap.

The RX 9070 XT carries 4096 shading units, 256 TMUs, 128 ROPs, and 64 ray tracing cores. The WX 3200 has 640 shading units, 32 TMUs, 16 ROPs, and no ray tracing hardware. Neither card has tensor cores listed. The RX 9070 XT clocks from a 1660 MHz base to a 2970 MHz boost with a 2400 MHz game clock and memory running at 2518 MHz (20.1 Gbps effective); the WX 3200's database record lists only its memory clock, 1500 MHz (6 Gbps effective). On the platform side, the RX 9070 XT connects over PCIe 5.0 x16 while the WX 3200 uses PCIe 3.0 x8, a narrower and older link. API support follows the same pattern: DirectX 12 Ultimate (12_2), Vulkan 1.4, and OpenGL 4.6 on the newer card versus DirectX 12 (12_0), Vulkan 1.3, and OpenGL 4.6 on the older one.

Specification Differences

• Chip: Navi 48 (RX 9070 XT) versus Polaris 23 (WX 3200)
• Architecture: RDNA 4.0 versus GCN 4.0
• Process node: 4 nm at TSMC versus 14 nm at GlobalFoundries
• Transistors: 53,900 million versus 2,200 million
• Die size and density: 357 mm² at 151.0M per mm² versus 103 mm² at 21.4M per mm²
• Shading units: 4096 versus 640
• TMUs: 256 versus 32
• ROPs: 128 versus 16
• Ray tracing cores: 64 versus none
• FP32 / FP16 throughput: 48.66 TFLOPS versus 1.658 TFLOPS, both at 1:1 FP16
• Memory: 16 GB GDDR6 on a 256-bit bus at 644.6 GB/s versus 4 GB GDDR5 on a 128-bit bus at 96.00 GB/s
• Pixel rate: 380.2 GPixel/s versus 20.72 GPixel/s
• Texture rate: 760.3 GTexel/s versus 41.44 GTexel/s
• TDP: 304 W versus 65 W
• Power connectors: 2x 8-pin versus none
• Suggested PSU: 700 W versus 250 W
• Slot width: Dual-slot versus single-slot
• Dimensions: not recorded for the RX 9070 XT; 167 mm long and 69 mm tall for the WX 3200
• Bus interface: PCIe 5.0 x16 versus PCIe 3.0 x8
• Display outputs: 1x HDMI 2.1b plus 3x DisplayPort 2.1a versus 4x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a
• DirectX support: 12 Ultimate (12_2) versus 12 (12_0)
• Vulkan support: 1.4 versus 1.3
• Production status: Active versus end-of-life
• Release dates: March 2025 for the RX 9070 XT versus July 2019 for the WX 3200
• Launch MSRP: 599 USD versus 199 USD