AMD Radeon RX 550X 640SP vs AMD FirePro W8100

VS

AMD Radeon RX 550X 640SP

AMD FirePro W8100

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 550X 640SP and 8GB VRAM FirePro W8100 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 550X 640SP 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1071MHz

Lower TDP (60W vs 220W)

AMD FirePro W8100 's Advantages

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

1920 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 550X 640SP

1.371 TFLOPS

FirePro W8100 +207%

4.219 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 550X 640SP

VS

FirePro W8100

Graphics Card

Apr 2018

Release Date

Jun 2014

Polaris

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1019 MHz

Base Clock

-

1071 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

512bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

320.0GB/s

Render Config

10

Compute Units

40

-

640

Shading Units

2560

40

TMUs

160

16

ROPs

64

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

17.14 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

52.74 GPixel/s

42.84 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

131.8 GTexel/s

1371 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1371 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.219 TFLOPS

85.68 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

2.109 TFLOPS

Board Design

60W

TDP

220W

250 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

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

Outputs

4x DisplayPort 1.2 1x SDI

None

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Baffin

GPU Name

Hawaii

Baffin LE

GPU Variant

Hawaii GL40

GCN 4.0

Architecture

GCN 2.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

3 billion

Transistors

6.2 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

438 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

2.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.3

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