AMD FirePro W5000 vs AMD Radeon RX 550X

VS

AMD FirePro W5000

AMD Radeon RX 550X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FirePro W5000 and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 550X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro W5000 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (102.4GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 550X 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock1183MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Lower TDP (50W vs 75W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro W5000 +4%

1.267 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 550X

1.211 TFLOPS

FirePro W5000

VS

Radeon RX 550X

Graphics Card

Aug 2012

Release Date

Dec 2018

FirePro

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1100 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1183 MHz

800 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

102.4GB/s

Bandwidth

96.00GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

8

-

768

Shading Units

512

48

TMUs

32

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

26.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

18.93 GPixel/s

39.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

37.86 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

1211 GFLOPS

1267 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1211 GFLOPS

79.20 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

75.71 GFLOPS

Board Design

75W

TDP

50W

250 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DVI 2x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0b 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Pitcairn

GPU Name

Lexa

Pitcairn LE GL

GPU Variant

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

28 nm

Process Size

14 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

2.2 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

103 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

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