AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT vs AMD FirePro W7000

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT and AMD FirePro W7000 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: Geekbench - OpenCL, PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT

AMD FirePro W7000

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT

Videocard is newer: launch date 8 year(s) 1 month(s) later
Around 25% higher core clock speed: 1187 MHz vs 950 MHz
2219.7x more texture fill rate: 168.7 GTexel/s vs 76 GTexel / s
Around 20% higher pipelines: 1536 vs 1280
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 7 nm vs 28 nm
2.8x lower typical power consumption: 125 Watt vs 350 Watt
2x more maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 4 GB
2.4x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 42879 vs 17763

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	4 Aug 2020 vs 13 June 2012
Core clock speed	1187 MHz vs 950 MHz
Texture fill rate	168.7 GTexel/s vs 76 GTexel / s
Pipelines	1536 vs 1280
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm vs 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	125 Watt vs 350 Watt
Maximum memory size	8 GB vs 4 GB
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL	42879 vs 17763

Reasons to consider the AMD FirePro W7000

2.7x more memory clock speed: 4800 MHz vs 1750 MHz (14 Gbps effective)

Memory clock speed	4800 MHz vs 1750 MHz (14 Gbps effective)

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT
GPU 2: AMD FirePro W7000

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

42879

17763

Name	AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT	AMD FirePro W7000
Geekbench - OpenCL	42879	17763
PassMark - G3D Mark		4288
PassMark - G2D Mark		546
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		52.467
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		1148.367
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		4.886
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		85.472
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		268.49
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		6475
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3714
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3359
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		6475
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3714
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3359

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT	AMD FirePro W7000
Essentials
Architecture	RDNA 1.0	GCN 1.0
Code name	Navi 14	Pitcairn
Launch date	4 Aug 2020	13 June 2012
Place in performance rating	511	509
Type	Desktop	Workstation
Launch price (MSRP)		$899
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1757 MHz
Compute units	24
Core clock speed	1187 MHz	950 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm	28 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	337.3 GFLOPS (1:16)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	10.80 TFLOPS (2:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	5.398 TFLOPS
Pipelines	1536	1280
Pixel fill rate	56.22 GPixel/s
Render output units	32
Texture fill rate	168.7 GTexel/s	76 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	125 Watt	350 Watt
Transistor count	6400 million	2,800 million
Floating-point performance		2,432 gflops
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	4x DisplayPort
DisplayPort count		4
Dual-link DVI support
StereoOutput3D
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x8	PCIe 3.0 x16
Recommended system power (PSU)	350 Watt
Supplementary power connectors	None	1x 6-pin
Width	IGP
Bus support		PCIe 3.0
Form factor		Full Height / Full Length
Length		242 mm
API support
DirectX	12.1	12.0 (11_1)
OpenCL	2.0
OpenGL	4.6	4.5
Shader Model	6.5
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	4 GB
Memory bandwidth	224.0 GB/s	153.6 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	1750 MHz (14 Gbps effective)	4800 MHz
Memory type	GDDR6	GDDR5