AMD Radeon 550X vs AMD FirePro D500

VS

AMD Radeon 550X

AMD FirePro D500

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon 550X 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 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock1218MHz

Lower TDP (50W vs 274W)

AMD FirePro D500 's Advantages

More VRAM (3GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (243.8GB/s vs 112.0GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon 550X

1.247 TFLOPS

FirePro D500 +78%

2.227 TFLOPS

Radeon 550X

VS

FirePro D500

Graphics Card

Mar 2019

Release Date

Jan 2014

Polaris

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1082 MHz

Base Clock

-

1218 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1270 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

384bit

112.0GB/s

Bandwidth

243.8GB/s

Render Config

8

Compute Units

24

-

512

Shading Units

1536

32

TMUs

96

16

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

19.49 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

23.20 GPixel/s

38.98 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

69.60 GTexel/s

1247 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1247 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.227 TFLOPS

77.95 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

556.8 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

-

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

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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