AMD FirePro D500 vs AMD Radeon RX 550 512SP
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM FirePro D500 and 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 550 512SP to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD FirePro D500 's Advantages
More VRAM (3GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (243.8GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)
1024 additional rendering cores
AMD Radeon RX 550 512SP 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 9 months late
Boost Clock1071MHz
Lower TDP (50W vs 274W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FirePro D500
+103%
2.227 TFLOPS
Radeon RX 550 512SP
1.097 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jan 2014
Release Date
Oct 2017
FirePro
Generation
Polaris
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1019 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1071 MHz
1270 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
Memory
3GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
384bit
Memory Bus
128bit
243.8GB/s
Bandwidth
96.00GB/s
Render Config
24
Compute Units
8
-
-
-
1536
Shading Units
512
96
TMUs
32
32
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
768 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
23.20 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
17.14 GPixel/s
69.60 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
34.27 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
1097 GFLOPS
2.227 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1097 GFLOPS
556.8 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
68.54 GFLOPS
Board Design
274W
TDP
50W
600 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
1x SDI
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0b
1x DisplayPort 1.4a
-
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Tahiti
GPU Name
Baffin
Tahiti LE GL
GPU Variant
Baffin LE
GCN 1.0
Architecture
GCN 4.0
TSMC
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
28 nm
Process Size
14 nm
4.313 billion
Transistors
3 billion
352 mm²
Die Size
123 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_1)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
1.2
OpenCL
2.1
1.2
Vulkan
1.2
-
-
-
5.1
Shader Model
6.4
