AMD Radeon 550X vs AMD FirePro W9100

VS

AMD Radeon 550X AMD FirePro W9100

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon 550X and 16GB VRAM FirePro W9100 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 late

Boost Clock1218MHz

Lower TDP (50W vs 275W)

AMD FirePro W9100 's Advantages

More VRAM (16GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 112.0GB/s)

2304 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon 550X

1.247 TFLOPS

FirePro W9100 +320%

5.238 TFLOPS

Radeon 550X

VS

FirePro W9100

Graphics Card

Mar 2019

Release Date

Mar 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

1250 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

512bit

112.0GB/s

Bandwidth

320.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

8

Compute Units

44

512

Shading Units

2816

32

TMUs

176

16

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

19.49 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

59.52 GPixel/s

38.98 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

163.7 GTexel/s

1247 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1247 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.238 TFLOPS

77.95 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

2.619 TFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Lexa

GPU Name

Hawaii

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GPU Variant

Hawaii GL44

GCN 4.0

Architecture

GCN 2.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

6.2 billion

103 mm²

Die Size

438 mm²

Board Design

50W

TDP

275W

250 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

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

Outputs

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

2.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.3

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