AMD FirePro W8100 vs AMD Radeon RX 550X

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM FirePro W8100 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 W8100 's Advantages

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

2048 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 550X 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock1183MHz

Lower TDP (50W vs 220W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro W8100 +248%

4.219 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 550X

1.211 TFLOPS

FirePro W8100

VS

Radeon RX 550X

Graphics Card

Jun 2014

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

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

512bit

Memory Bus

128bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

96.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

40

Compute Units

8

2560

Shading Units

512

160

TMUs

32

64

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

52.74 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

18.93 GPixel/s

131.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

37.86 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

1211 GFLOPS

4.219 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1211 GFLOPS

2.109 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

75.71 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

Lexa

Hawaii GL40

GPU Variant

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GCN 2.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

28 nm

Process Size

14 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

2.2 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

103 mm²

Board Design

220W

TDP

50W

550 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

4x DisplayPort 1.2 1x SDI

Outputs

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

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

6.3

Shader Model

6.4

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