- Radeon Pro GPUs outperform Nvidia’s flagship cards in critical SOLIDWORKS workloads
- Midrange Radeon Pro GPUs match high-end Nvidia Blackwell performance in Inventor
- AMD’s AI Pro R9700 leads Nvidia in drawing and hidden line benchmarks
Professional GPU benchmarking for technical workloads continues to reveal a gap between hardware marketing requirements and measurable software behavior.
Recent testing by PugetSystems across common CAD, modeling and photogrammetry applications shows that performance results are often limited by application design, driver behavior and limited scaling rather than raw graphics capacity.
In several cases, cheaper professional GPUs matched the results of far more expensive models.
Cheaper Radeon Pro GPUs bypass Blackwell and Ada chips
The tests directly compared AMD Radeon Pro workstation GPUs to Nvidia’s top-tier RTX Pro Blackwell and Ada Generation cards across multiple technical applications.
Tests focused on Autodesk Inventor, SOLIDWORKS, Revit and PIX4Dmatic using consistent 4K display settings and a high-end Ryzen CPU to minimize processor bottlenecks.
In Autodesk Inventor graphics tests, Radeon Pro models such as the W7900, W7800, and AI Pro R9700 performed on par with Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell and RTX 6000 Ada cards when the workload passed a basic performance threshold.
Above the Radeon Pro W7500 level, the performance differences between GPUs are tightly clustered, indicating minimal scaling regardless of price level.
This behavior suggests that Inventor graphics workloads are not gaining meaningful benefits from Nvidia’s most expensive workstation GPU design.
SOLIDWORKS tests showed greater variation between Radeon Pro and Nvidia RTX Pro GPUs, depending on workload.
Composite GPU results placed the Radeon Pro W7900 and Radeon AI Pro R9700 ahead of the Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell and RTX Pro 5000 models despite much lower launch prices.
Radeon Pro GPUs also led drawing and hidden line workloads, with every AMD card tested exceeding Nvidia’s fastest result by a wide margin.
However, Nvidia retained advantages in some shadow and RealView modes, especially with higher-end Blackwell cards.
The PIX4Dmatic benchmarks only supported Nvidia GPUs, excluding Radeon Pro cards entirely.
Still, the RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell and RTX Pro 5000 delivered only modest gains over previous Ada cards in calibration and point cloud generation.
Processing times were often shaped by non-GPU stages, which limited the impact of Nvidia’s latest workstation hardware despite exclusive software support.
Across the technical applications tested, Radeon Pro workstation GPUs repeatedly matched or outperformed Nvidia’s flagship RTX Pro Blackwell cards in GPU-bound workloads while costing far less.
Nvidia’s top models showed strong consistency and software compatibility, but rarely delivered performance gains befitting their higher prices.
These results suggest that for many engineering workflows, especially CAD drafting and modeling tasks, Radeon Pro hardware currently offers comparable performance without the cost premium of high-end workstation GPUs.
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