AMD Radeon 550 vs AMD FirePro W9000

VS

AMD Radeon 550

AMD FirePro W9000

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon 550 and 6GB VRAM FirePro W9000 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon 550 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1183MHz

Lower TDP (50W vs 274W)

AMD FirePro W9000 's Advantages

More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 56.00GB/s)

1536 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon 550

1.211 TFLOPS

FirePro W9000 +229%

3.994 TFLOPS

Radeon 550

VS

FirePro W9000

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Jun 2012

Polaris

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1100 MHz

Base Clock

-

1183 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

384bit

56.00GB/s

Bandwidth

264.0GB/s

Render Config

8

Compute Units

32

-

512

Shading Units

2048

32

TMUs

128

16

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

18.93 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

31.20 GPixel/s

37.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

124.8 GTexel/s

1211 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1211 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.994 TFLOPS

75.71 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

998.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

50W

TDP

274W

250 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

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

Outputs

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2 1x SDI

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Lexa

GPU Name

Tahiti

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GPU Variant

Tahiti XT GL

GCN 4.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

103 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

-

6.7

Shader Model

5.1

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