AMD Radeon Pro 5500M vs ATI FireGL V8600

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon Pro 5500M and ATI FireGL V8600 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: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, 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), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

AMD Radeon Pro 5500M

ATI FireGL V8600

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Pro 5500M

Videocard is newer: launch date 12 year(s) 5 month(s) later
Around 45% higher core clock speed: 1000 MHz vs 688 MHz
11335.1x more texture fill rate: 124.8 GTexel/s vs 11.01 GTexel / s
4.8x more pipelines: 1536 vs 320
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 7 nm vs 80 nm
Around 87% lower typical power consumption: 85 Watt vs 159 Watt
8x more maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 1 GB
6.9x more memory clock speed: 12000 MHz vs 1736 MHz
8.1x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 6781 vs 839
Around 62% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 659 vs 406

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	13 Nov 2019 vs 14 May 2007
Core clock speed	1000 MHz vs 688 MHz
Texture fill rate	124.8 GTexel/s vs 11.01 GTexel / s
Pipelines	1536 vs 320
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm vs 80 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	85 Watt vs 159 Watt
Maximum memory size	8 GB vs 1 GB
Memory clock speed	12000 MHz vs 1736 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	6781 vs 839
PassMark - G2D Mark	659 vs 406

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon Pro 5500M
GPU 2: ATI FireGL V8600

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

6781

839

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

659

406

Name	AMD Radeon Pro 5500M	ATI FireGL V8600
PassMark - G3D Mark	6781	839
PassMark - G2D Mark	659	406
Geekbench - OpenCL	37199
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	105.82
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	1860.146
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	11.238
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	94.947
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	596.819
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	9175
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3670
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3353
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	9175
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3670
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3353
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	3426

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon Pro 5500M	ATI FireGL V8600
Essentials
Architecture	RDNA 1.0	TeraScale
Code name	Navi 14	R600
Launch date	13 Nov 2019	14 May 2007
Place in performance rating	369	366
Type	Laptop	Workstation
Launch price (MSRP)		$1,899
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1300 MHz
Compute units	24
Core clock speed	1000 MHz	688 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm	80 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	249.6 GFLOPS (1:16)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	7.987 TFLOPS (2:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	3.994 TFLOPS
Pipelines	1536	320
Pixel fill rate	41.60 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	124.8 GTexel/s	11.01 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	85 Watt	159 Watt
Transistor count	6400 million	720 million
Floating-point performance		440.3 gflops
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x DisplayPort, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x16	PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors	None	1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Length		254 mm
API support
DirectX	12.1	10.0
OpenCL	2.0
OpenGL	4.6	3.3
Shader Model	6.4
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	1 GB
Memory bandwidth	192 GB/s	111.1 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 bit	512 Bit
Memory clock speed	12000 MHz	1736 MHz
Memory type	GDDR6	GDDR4