Earlier this month I picked up a pair of AMD Radeon Pro WX 3100 4GB Graphics Cards. From what I have seen on YouTube and review sites, the AMD Radeon Pro WX 3100 should perform similar to a Nvidia GeForce GT 1030 graphics card, for about 33% lower cost, while having double the video RAM.
To pair with the AMD Radeon Pro WX 3100 GPUs I found a pair of Acer Veriton N6640G Mini PCs to go with it. These mini-PCs are unique in that you can actually add two extra compartments to the main mini-PC. One of the compartments allows you to add a low profile PCIe Card, in our case a graphics card, and the lower compartment allows extra storage to be added in the form of a single 2.5″ SATA drive, and a proprietary DVD drive.
In my case I received the systems with a AMD Radeon R7 430 pre-installed. I found that some people sell them on eBay as “Gaming” cards, which I am rather dubious about, but I thought I would at least do a basic benchmark on the installed low profile 2GB graphics card before pulling it out and replacing it with the AMD Radeon Pro WX 3100.
Update!
Well, the power supply with the Acer Veriton N6640G Mini PCs wasn’t strong enough for the AMD Radeon Pro WX 3100, and the system crashed every time I attempted to run the benchmarks. I have amended the test system details below …
For my basic benchmark comparison I’ll be using Unigine Heaven Benchmark 4.0, on Extreme Settings, which, since the system will be identical with both graphics cards, should give us some idea about the performance difference.
Unigine Heaven Benchmark 4.0
Extreme settings benchmark
AMD Radeon R7 430 2GB LP GPU
- TDP: 50 Watts
- FPS: 8.8
- Score: 221
- Min FPS: 5.4
- Max FPS: 18.1
AMD Radeon Pro WX 3100 –
- TDP: 65 Watts
- FPS: 21.9
- Score: 551
- Min FPS: 13.1
- Max FPS: 46.4
AMD Radeon RX 550 4GB
- TDP: 50 Watts
- FPS: 21.6
- Score: 545
- Min FPS: 5.8
- Max FPS: 46.3
AMD Radeon RX 640
- TDP: 50 Watts
- FPS: 25.0
- Score: 629
- Min FPS: 13.7
- Max FPS: 55.4
NVidia GeForce GT 1030 2GB
- TDP: 30 Watts
- FPS: 19.6
- Score: 494
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