AMD Radeon Pro W6800X vs AMD Radeon 550X

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 32GB VRAM Radeon Pro W6800X and 2GB VRAM Radeon 550X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon Pro W6800X 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 71% (2087MHz vs 1218MHz)

More VRAM (32GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 112.0GB/s)

3328 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon 550X 's Advantages

Lower TDP (50W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Pro W6800X +1185%

16.03 TFLOPS

Radeon 550X

1.247 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro W6800X

VS

Radeon 550X

Graphics Card

Aug 2021

Release Date

Mar 2019

Radeon Pro Mac

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

Apple MPX

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1800 MHz

Base Clock

1082 MHz

2087 MHz

Boost Clock

1218 MHz

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

32GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

512.0GB/s

Bandwidth

112.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

60

Compute Units

8

3840

Shading Units

512

240

TMUs

32

96

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

60

RT Cores

-

128 KB per Array

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

4 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

200.4 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

19.49 GPixel/s

500.9 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

38.98 GTexel/s

32.06 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

1247 GFLOPS

16.03 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1247 GFLOPS

1002 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

77.95 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Navi 21

GPU Name

Lexa

Navi 21 Pro-XLA

GPU Variant

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

RDNA 2.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

7 nm

Process Size

14 nm

26.8 billion

Transistors

2.2 billion

520 mm²

Die Size

103 mm²

Board Design

200W

TDP

50W

550 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x HDMI 2.1 4x Thunderbolt

Outputs

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

Apple MPX

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

6.7

Shader Model

6.4

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