AMD Radeon 550X vs AMD FirePro W600

VS

AMD Radeon 550X

AMD FirePro W600

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon 550X and 2GB VRAM FirePro W600 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon 550X 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1218MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (112.0GB/s vs 64.00GB/s)

Lower TDP (50W vs 75W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon 550X +62%

1.247 TFLOPS

FirePro W600

0.768 TFLOPS

Radeon 550X

VS

FirePro W600

Graphics Card

Mar 2019

Release Date

Jun 2012

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

1000 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

112.0GB/s

Bandwidth

64.00GB/s

Render Config

8

Compute Units

8

-

512

Shading Units

512

32

TMUs

32

16

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

19.49 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.00 GPixel/s

38.98 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

24.00 GTexel/s

1247 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1247 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

768.0 GFLOPS

77.95 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

48.00 GFLOPS

Board Design

50W

TDP

75W

250 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Lexa

GPU Name

Cape Verde

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GPU Variant

Cape Verde PRO GL

GCN 4.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

1.5 billion

103 mm²

Die Size

123 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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