AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT vs AMD FirePro W7170M

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT and AMD FirePro W7170M videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: Geekbench - OpenCL, PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT

AMD FirePro W7170M

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT

Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 10 month(s) later
Around 64% higher core clock speed: 1187 MHz vs 723 MHz
1823x more texture fill rate: 168.7 GTexel/s vs 92.54 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 7 nm vs 28 nm
2x more maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 4 GB

Launch date	4 Aug 2020 vs 2 October 2015
Core clock speed	1187 MHz vs 723 MHz
Texture fill rate	168.7 GTexel/s vs 92.54 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm vs 28 nm
Maximum memory size	8 GB vs 4 GB

Reasons to consider the AMD FirePro W7170M

Around 33% higher pipelines: 2048 vs 1536
Around 25% lower typical power consumption: 100 Watt vs 125 Watt
2.9x more memory clock speed: 5000 MHz vs 1750 MHz (14 Gbps effective)
Around 19% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 50809 vs 42529

Specifications (specs)
Pipelines	2048 vs 1536
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	100 Watt vs 125 Watt
Memory clock speed	5000 MHz vs 1750 MHz (14 Gbps effective)
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL	50809 vs 42529

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT
GPU 2: AMD FirePro W7170M

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

42529

50809

Name	AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT	AMD FirePro W7170M
Geekbench - OpenCL	42529	50809
PassMark - G3D Mark		3162
PassMark - G2D Mark		418
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		6796
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		6796
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3722
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3722
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3362
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3362

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT	AMD FirePro W7170M
Essentials
Architecture	RDNA 1.0	GCN 3.0
Code name	Navi 14	Amethyst
Launch date	4 Aug 2020	2 October 2015
Place in performance rating	512	420
Type	Desktop	Mobile workstation
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1757 MHz
Compute units	24
Core clock speed	1187 MHz	723 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	2048
Pixel fill rate	56.22 GPixel/s
Render output units	32
Texture fill rate	168.7 GTexel/s	92.54 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	125 Watt	100 Watt
Transistor count	6400 million	5,000 million
Floating-point performance		2,961 gflops
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x8	PCIe 3.0 x16
Recommended system power (PSU)	350 Watt
Supplementary power connectors	None	None
Width	IGP
Laptop size		large
API support
DirectX	12.1	12.0 (12_0)
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	160.0 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	1750 MHz (14 Gbps effective)	5000 MHz
Memory type	GDDR6	GDDR5
Shared memory		0
Technologies
AMD Eyefinity
AppAcceleration
Enduro