AMD Radeon 550X 640SP vs AMD FirePro D500

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon 550X 640SP and 3GB VRAM FirePro D500 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon 550X 640SP 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock1071MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 3GB)

Lower TDP (50W vs 274W)

AMD FirePro D500 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (243.8GB/s vs 48.00GB/s)

896 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon 550X 640SP

1.371 TFLOPS

FirePro D500 +62%

2.227 TFLOPS

Radeon 550X 640SP

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FirePro D500

Graphics Card

Apr 2018

Release Date

Jan 2014

Polaris

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1019 MHz

Base Clock

-

1071 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1270 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

384bit

48.00GB/s

Bandwidth

243.8GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

10

Compute Units

24

640

Shading Units

1536

40

TMUs

96

16

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

17.14 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

23.20 GPixel/s

42.84 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

69.60 GTexel/s

1371 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1371 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.227 TFLOPS

85.68 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

556.8 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Lexa

GPU Name

Tahiti

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GPU Variant

Tahiti LE 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

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

-

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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