AMD Radeon Pro W5500 vs AMD Radeon R9 290X

VS

AMD Radeon Pro W5500

AMD Radeon R9 290X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon Pro W5500 and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon Pro W5500 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock1855MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Lower TDP (125W vs 290W)

AMD Radeon R9 290X 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 224.0GB/s)

1408 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Pro W5500

5.224 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X +7%

5.632 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro W5500

VS

Radeon R9 290X

Graphics Card

Feb 2020

Release Date

Oct 2013

Radeon Pro

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1744 MHz

Base Clock

-

1855 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

512bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

320.0GB/s

Render Config

22

Compute Units

44

-

1408

Shading Units

2816

88

TMUs

176

32

ROPs

64

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

59.36 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

64.00 GPixel/s

163.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

176.0 GTexel/s

10.45 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

5.224 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.632 TFLOPS

326.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

704.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

125W

TDP

290W

300 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

4x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Navi 14

GPU Name

Hawaii

Navi 14 PRO XL

GPU Variant

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

RDNA 1.0

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

28 nm

6.4 billion

Transistors

6.2 billion

158 mm²

Die Size

438 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

2.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

-

6.5

Shader Model

6.3

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