AMD Radeon 550X 640SP vs AMD FirePro R5000

VS

AMD Radeon 550X 640SP

AMD FirePro R5000

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon 550X 640SP and 2GB VRAM FirePro R5000 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon 550X 640SP 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock1071MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Lower TDP (50W vs 150W)

AMD FirePro R5000 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (102.4GB/s vs 48.00GB/s)

128 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon 550X 640SP +8%

1.371 TFLOPS

FirePro R5000

1.267 TFLOPS

Radeon 550X 640SP

VS

FirePro R5000

Graphics Card

Apr 2018

Release Date

Feb 2013

Polaris

Generation

FirePro Remote

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

800 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

48.00GB/s

Bandwidth

102.4GB/s

Render Config

10

Compute Units

12

-

640

Shading Units

768

40

TMUs

48

16

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

17.14 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

26.40 GPixel/s

42.84 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

39.60 GTexel/s

1371 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1371 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1267 GFLOPS

85.68 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

79.20 GFLOPS

Board Design

50W

TDP

150W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Lexa

GPU Name

Pitcairn

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GPU Variant

Pitcairn LE GL

GCN 4.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

103 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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