AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT vs ATI FirePro V8700

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT and ATI FirePro V8700 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, GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 11 year(s) 10 month(s) later
  • Around 58% higher core clock speed: 1187 MHz vs 750 MHz
  • 5623.3x more texture fill rate: 168.7 GTexel/s vs 30 GTexel / s
  • Around 92% higher pipelines: 1536 vs 800
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 7 nm vs 55 nm
  • Around 21% lower typical power consumption: 125 Watt vs 151 Watt
  • 8x more maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 1 GB
Launch date 4 Aug 2020 vs 11 September 2008
Core clock speed 1187 MHz vs 750 MHz
Texture fill rate 168.7 GTexel/s vs 30 GTexel / s
Pipelines 1536 vs 800
Manufacturing process technology 7 nm vs 55 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 125 Watt vs 151 Watt
Maximum memory size 8 GB vs 1 GB

Reasons to consider the ATI FirePro V8700

  • Around 94% higher memory clock speed: 3400 MHz vs 1750 MHz (14 Gbps effective)
Memory clock speed 3400 MHz vs 1750 MHz (14 Gbps effective)

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT
GPU 2: ATI FirePro V8700

Name AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT ATI FirePro V8700
Geekbench - OpenCL 42511
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 8543
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 152.6
PassMark - G2D Mark 527
PassMark - G3D Mark 1539

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT ATI FirePro V8700

Essentials

Architecture RDNA 1.0 TeraScale
Code name Navi 14 RV770
Launch date 4 Aug 2020 11 September 2008
Place in performance rating 512 430
Type Desktop Workstation
Launch price (MSRP) $1,499

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1757 MHz
Compute units 24
Core clock speed 1187 MHz 750 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 7 nm 55 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 800
Pixel fill rate 56.22 GPixel/s
Render output units 32
Texture fill rate 168.7 GTexel/s 30 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 125 Watt 151 Watt
Transistor count 6400 million 956 million
Floating-point performance 1,200.0 gflops

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs 1x DVI, 2x DisplayPort, 1x S-Video

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 4.0 x8 PCIe 2.0 x16
Recommended system power (PSU) 350 Watt
Supplementary power connectors None 2x 6-pin
Width IGP
Length 254 mm

API support

DirectX 12.1 10.1
OpenCL 2.0
OpenGL 4.6 3.3
Shader Model 6.5
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 1 GB
Memory bandwidth 224.0 GB/s 108.8 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 1750 MHz (14 Gbps effective) 3400 MHz
Memory type GDDR6 GDDR5