GPU Comparison
RADEON
AMD FirePro W5000
CORE STATE
Pitcairn
VRAM
2 GB
CLOCK SPEED
—
TDP
75 W
BUS WIDTH
256 bit
ARCHITECTURE
GCN 1.0
PROCESS
28 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2012
VS
RADEON
Radeon RX 550X
CORE STATE
Lexa
VRAM
4 GB
CLOCK SPEED
1183 MHz
TDP
50 W
BUS WIDTH
128 bit
ARCHITECTURE
GCN 4.0
PROCESS
14 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2018
PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS
geekbench_opencl
geekbench_vulkan
DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS
SPECIFICATION
FirePro W5000
RX 550X
Core Specs
Shading Units
768
512
-33.3%
Shaders
768
512
-33.3%
TMUs
48
32
-33.3%
ROPs
32
16
-50.0%
Compute Units
12
8
-33.3%
Clocks
Base Clock
—
1100 MHz
Boost Clock
—
1183 MHz
GPU Clock
825 MHz
—
Memory Clock
800 MHz
3.2 Gbps effective
1500 MHz
6 Gbps effective
Memory
Memory Size
2 GB
4 GB
VRAM (MB)
2,048
4,096
+100.0%
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256 bit
128 bit
Bandwidth
102.4 GB/s
96.00 GB/s
Cache
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
512 KB
512 KB
Performance
Pixel Rate
26.40 GPixel/s
18.93 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
39.60 GTexel/s
37.86 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
1,267.2 GFLOPS
1,211.4 GFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
79.20 GFLOPS (1:16)
75.71 GFLOPS (1:16)
FP16 (TFLOPS)
—
1,211.4 GFLOPS (1:1)
Power
TDP
75 W
50 W
TDP (W)
75
50
-33.3%
Suggested PSU
250 W
250 W
Power Connectors
None
None
Architecture
Architecture
GCN 1.0
GCN 4.0
GPU Name
Pitcairn
Lexa
Generation
FirePro GCN
(Wx000)
Polaris
(RX 500X)
Process Size
28 nm
14 nm
Transistors
2,800 million
2,200 million
Die Size
212 mm²
103 mm²
Foundry
TSMC
GlobalFoundries
Density
13.2M / mm²
21.4M / mm²
API Support
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 (12_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Vulkan
1.2.170
1.3
OpenCL
2.1 (1.2)
2.1
Shader Model
6.5 (5.1)
6.7
Physical
Slot Width
Single-slot
Dual-slot
Length
183 mm
7.2 inches
145 mm
5.7 inches
Height
111 mm
4.4 inches
—
Outputs
1x DVI2x DisplayPort 1.2
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.0b1x DisplayPort 1.4a
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x8
Other
Launch Price
599 USD
—
Production
End-of-life
End-of-life
Predecessor
FirePro Terascale
Polaris
Successor
Radeon Pro Polaris
Vega