AMD Radeon 550X vs ATI FirePro V7900

VS

AMD Radeon 550X ATI FirePro V7900

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon 550X and 2GB VRAM FirePro V7900 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon 550X 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1218MHz

Lower TDP (50W vs 150W)

ATI FirePro V7900 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.0GB/s vs 112.0GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon 550X

1.247 TFLOPS

FirePro V7900 +48%

1.856 TFLOPS

Radeon 550X

VS

FirePro V7900

Graphics Card

Mar 2019

Release Date

May 2011

Polaris

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1082 MHz

Base Clock

-

1218 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

112.0GB/s

Bandwidth

160.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

8

Compute Units

20

512

Shading Units

1280

32

TMUs

80

16

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

19.49 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

23.20 GPixel/s

38.98 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

58.00 GTexel/s

1247 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1247 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.856 TFLOPS

77.95 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

464.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Lexa

GPU Name

Cayman

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GPU Variant

Cayman PRO GL

GCN 4.0

Architecture

TeraScale 3

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

2.64 billion

103 mm²

Die Size

389 mm²

Board Design

50W

TDP

150W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

4x DisplayPort 1.2

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

2.1

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

5.0

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