AMD Radeon Pro WX 8200 vs NVIDIA RTX 5880 Ada Generation Comparison

Head-to-Head Benchmarks

The benchmark comparison between these two workstation cards is decisively one-sided, with the NVIDIA RTX 5880 Ada Generation winning the only directly comparable test in the database. The head-to-head record shows 0 wins for the AMD Radeon Pro WX 8200 and 1 win for the NVIDIA card.

In Geekbench OpenCL, the NVIDIA RTX 5880 Ada Generation scores 326,898 points, while the AMD Radeon Pro WX 8200 manages 69,774 points. This represents a delta of -78.7% for the AMD card, meaning the NVIDIA solution delivers over four times the raw compute performance in this workload. The 326,898 OpenCL score is by far the strongest single result recorded for either card across all benchmark suites.

Looking at the broader benchmark picture, the NVIDIA card's average benchmark score of 45,972 places it in the 85th percentile of all GPUs. Its nearest rivals in the database are the NVIDIA RTX A2000 at 46,043 (a -0.2% delta), the Intel Arc A730M at 45,592 (a 0.8% delta), the AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT at 45,384 (a 1.3% delta), and the AMD Radeon RX 5600M at 46,601 (a -1.4% delta). The RTX 5880 Ada Generation sits essentially at parity with these cards in aggregate scoring, despite its dominant OpenCL result.

The AMD Radeon Pro WX 8200, by contrast, posts an average benchmark score of 69,870, which places it in the 90th percentile of all GPUs. Its nearest rivals include the NVIDIA Quadro P6000 at 69,986 (a -0.2% delta), the NVIDIA RTX A3000 Mobile at 70,140 (a -0.4% delta), the NVIDIA CMP 90HX at 69,000 (a 1.3% delta), and the AMD Radeon RX 6600 LE at 70,829 (a -1.4% delta). The AMD card's aggregate score is competitive with these peers, though the individual Geekbench results show consistency across API variants: 70,759 in Metal, 69,774 in OpenCL, and 69,076 in Vulkan.

The NVIDIA card also has additional benchmark data from Passmark suites that the AMD card lacks. In Passmark G3D, the NVIDIA card scores 25,096; in GPU Compute it scores 14,208; in G2D it scores 777; in DirectX 9 it scores 335; in DirectX 11 it scores 228; in DirectX 10 it scores 167; and in DirectX 12 it scores 70. These results illustrate that the NVIDIA card's performance profile extends across legacy and modern API workloads, though the direct comparison with AMD is limited to the OpenCL test.

The magnitude of the OpenCL gap is substantial enough that no amount of architectural analysis can bridge it. The NVIDIA card's 326,898 OpenCL score versus the AMD card's 69,774 represents a raw performance advantage that will manifest in any OpenCL-based compute application, from rendering to scientific simulation.

The Verdict

From the recorded data, the choice between these two cards depends almost entirely on workload requirements and hardware longevity. The NVIDIA RTX 5880 Ada Generation is the clear performance leader in the one shared benchmark, delivering an OpenCL score roughly 4.7 times higher than the AMD Radeon Pro WX 8200. For any user whose primary applications rely on OpenCL compute, the NVIDIA card is the only rational selection based on these measurements.

The AMD Radeon Pro WX 8200 does hold a higher percentile ranking at 90 versus the NVIDIA card's 85, but this reflects its aggregate score of 69,870 against a different set of peers. The AMD card's nearest rivals all cluster within a tight band: the NVIDIA Quadro P6000 is essentially tied at 69,986 (-0.2%), the NVIDIA RTX A3000 Mobile is close at 70,140 (-0.4%), and the AMD Radeon RX 6600 LE sits at 70,829 (-1.4%). This suggests the WX 8200 is well matched to its contemporary workstation competition, but that competition is from an older generation of hardware.

The NVIDIA RTX 5880 Ada Generation's nearest rivals tell a different story. The RTX A2000 at 46,043 (-0.2%) and RX 5600M at 46,601 (-1.4%) bracket its aggregate performance, while the Arc A730M at 45,592 (0.8%) and Radeon Pro 5500 XT at 45,384 (1.3%) trail slightly. The NVIDIA card's 85th percentile placement, despite its dominant OpenCL score, indicates that its aggregate benchmark profile is dragged down by the Passmark results, which are modest across DirectX tests.

For users who need maximum compute throughput in OpenCL workloads, the NVIDIA RTX 5880 Ada Generation is the data-backed choice. For users who require a card that holds its own against its immediate peers and are working within the context of older PCIe generations or legacy software stacks, the AMD Radeon Pro WX 8200 remains serviceable, but the benchmark evidence shows it is outclassed by the newer NVIDIA architecture.

FAQ

Q: Which card has the higher average benchmark score?

A: The AMD Radeon Pro WX 8200 has an average benchmark score of 69,870, while the NVIDIA RTX 5880 Ada Generation has an average of 45,972. However, the NVIDIA card wins the head-to-head OpenCL test decisively.

Q: What is the exact OpenCL score difference between the two cards?

A: The NVIDIA RTX 5880 Ada Generation scores 326,898 in Geekbench OpenCL, while the AMD Radeon Pro WX 8200 scores 69,774. The delta is -78.7% for the AMD card.

Q: How does each card rank among all GPUs in the database?

A: The AMD Radeon Pro WX 8200 sits in the 90th percentile of all GPUs, while the NVIDIA RTX 5880 Ada Generation sits in the 85th percentile.

Q: What are the closest competitors to the AMD Radeon Pro WX 8200?

A: The NVIDIA Quadro P6000 (69,986 average score, -0.2% delta), NVIDIA RTX A3000 Mobile (70,140, -0.4%), NVIDIA CMP 90HX (69,000, 1.3%), and AMD Radeon RX 6600 LE (70,829, -1.4%) are the nearest rivals.

Q: What are the closest competitors to the NVIDIA RTX 5880 Ada Generation?

A: The NVIDIA RTX A2000 (46,043, -0.2%), Intel Arc A730M (45,592, 0.8%), AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT (45,384, 1.3%), and AMD Radeon RX 5600M (46,601, -1.4%) are the nearest rivals.

Q: Which card has additional benchmark coverage beyond OpenCL?

A: The NVIDIA RTX 5880 Ada Generation has Passmark results across DirectX 9 (335), DirectX 10 (167), DirectX 11 (228), DirectX 12 (70), G2D (777), G3D (25,096), and GPU Compute (14,208). The AMD card's recorded benchmarks are limited to Geekbench Metal, OpenCL, and Vulkan.

Specification Differences

The two cards differ across nearly every major specification category. The AMD Radeon Pro WX 8200 uses a Vega 10 chip built on GCN 5.0 architecture with a 14 nm process from GlobalFoundries, while the NVIDIA RTX 5880 Ada Generation uses the AD102 chip on Ada Lovelace architecture with a 5 nm process from TSMC.

Memory configurations diverge sharply. The AMD card ships with 8 GB of HBM2 on a 2048-bit bus delivering 512.0 GB/s of bandwidth at 1000 MHz (2 Gbps effective). The NVIDIA card ships with 48 GB of GDDR6 on a 384-bit bus delivering 864.0 GB/s of bandwidth at 2250 MHz (18 Gbps effective). The NVIDIA card offers six times the memory capacity and significantly higher bandwidth.

Compute resources show a similar disparity. The AMD card has 3,584 shading units, 224 texture mapping units, and 64 ROPs. The NVIDIA card has 14,080 shading units, 440 TMUs, and 176 ROPs. The NVIDIA card also includes 110 RT cores and 440 tensor cores, features entirely absent from the AMD card.

Clock speeds present an interesting inversion. The AMD card has a higher base clock at 1200 MHz versus the NVIDIA card's 975 MHz, but the NVIDIA card boosts to 2460 MHz versus the AMD card's 1500 MHz. Pixel and texture rates favor the NVIDIA card substantially: 433.0 GPixel/s and 1,082.4 GTexel/s versus 96.00 GPixel/s and 336.0 GTexel/s. FP32 throughput is 69.27 TFLOPS for NVIDIA versus 10.75 TFLOPS for AMD, and FP16 is 69.27 TFLOPS (1:1) versus 21.50 TFLOPS (2:1).

Power and interface specifications also differ. The AMD card has a 230 W TDP with 1x 6-pin and 1x 8-pin power connectors, suggesting a 550 W PSU. The NVIDIA card has a 285 W TDP with a single 16-pin connector, suggesting a 600 W PSU. The AMD card uses PCIe 3.0 x16 while the NVIDIA card uses PCIe 4.0 x16. Display outputs are 4x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a on the AMD card versus 4x DisplayPort 1.4a on the NVIDIA card.

The AMD card measures 267 mm by 111 mm, while the NVIDIA card measures 267 mm by 112 mm. Both are dual-slot cards.

Architecture Differences

The architectural gap between these two cards spans several generations of GPU design. The AMD Radeon Pro WX 8200 is built on GCN 5.0, a 2018-era architecture manufactured on a 14 nm process at GlobalFoundries. The NVIDIA RTX 5880 Ada Generation uses the Ada Lovelace architecture, manufactured on a 5 nm process at TSMC, representing a dramatically newer design philosophy.

Transistor counts illustrate the scale difference. The AMD chip contains 12,500 million transistors on a 495 mm² die, yielding a transistor density of 25.3M per mm². The NVIDIA chip contains 76,300 million transistors on a 609 mm² die, yielding a density of 125.3M per mm². The NVIDIA chip packs over six times the transistors into a die that is only modestly larger, a direct consequence of the more advanced process node.

The NVIDIA card's architecture includes dedicated RT cores (110 of them) and tensor cores (440 of them), which enable hardware-accelerated ray tracing and AI workloads. The AMD card has neither, relying entirely on its GCN shader array for all compute tasks. This is a fundamental architectural difference: the NVIDIA card can offload ray tracing and tensor operations to specialized hardware, while the AMD card must handle these workloads on general-purpose shaders.

API support reflects the generational divide. The AMD card supports DirectX 12 (12_1), OpenGL 4.6, and Vulkan 1.3. The NVIDIA card supports DirectX 12 Ultimate (12_2), OpenGL 4.6, and Vulkan 1.4. The DirectX 12 Ultimate designation includes features like mesh shaders and variable rate shading that the older 12_1 feature level does not guarantee.

Memory architecture differs fundamentally as well. The AMD card uses HBM2 with a 2048-bit memory bus, a configuration designed for high bandwidth in a compact form factor. The NVIDIA card uses GDDR6 on a 384-bit bus, trading some of the HBM2's per-pin efficiency for higher total capacity and bandwidth. The NVIDIA card's 48 GB capacity is particularly notable for large dataset workloads where the AMD card's 8 GB would be a binding constraint.

The production status of the two cards reinforces the architectural generational divide. The AMD Radeon Pro WX 8200 is listed as end-of-life, released in 2018, with its predecessor being Radeon Pro GCN and its successor being Radeon Pro Vega. The NVIDIA RTX 5880 Ada Generation is listed as active, released in 2024, with its predecessor being Workstation Ampere and its successor being Blackwell PRO W. The AMD card's launch MSRP was 999 USD.