AMD Radeon Pro W5500 vs AMD FirePro S9300 X2

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon Pro W5500 and AMD FirePro S9300 X2 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: 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), Geekbench - OpenCL.

AMD Radeon Pro W5500

AMD FirePro S9300 X2

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Pro W5500

Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 10 month(s) later
Around 40% higher core clock speed: 1187 MHz vs 850 MHz
55.6x more texture fill rate: 123.2 GTexel/s vs 2x 217.6 GTexel / s billion / sec
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 7 nm vs 28 nm
2.4x lower typical power consumption: 125 Watt vs 300 Watt
Around 75% higher memory clock speed: 1750 MHz (14000 MHz effective) vs 1000 MHz

Launch date	10 Feb 2020 vs 31 March 2016
Core clock speed	1187 MHz vs 850 MHz
Texture fill rate	123.2 GTexel/s vs 2x 217.6 GTexel / s billion / sec
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm vs 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	125 Watt vs 300 Watt
Memory clock speed	1750 MHz (14000 MHz effective) vs 1000 MHz

Reasons to consider the AMD FirePro S9300 X2

5.8x more pipelines: 2x 4096 vs 1408

Pipelines	2x 4096 vs 1408

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon Pro W5500
GPU 2: AMD FirePro S9300 X2

Name	AMD Radeon Pro W5500	AMD FirePro S9300 X2
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	130.7
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	2361.73
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	13.641
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	135.462
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	774.974
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	12184
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3463
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3355
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	12184
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3463
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3355
Geekbench - OpenCL		27971

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon Pro W5500	AMD FirePro S9300 X2
Essentials
Architecture	RDNA 1.0	GCN 3.0
Code name	Navi 14	Capsaicin
Launch date	10 Feb 2020	31 March 2016
Launch price (MSRP)	$399	$5,999
Place in performance rating	330	852
Type	Desktop	Workstation
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1400 MHz
Core clock speed	1187 MHz	850 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm	28 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	246.4 GFLOPS (1:16)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	7.885 TFLOPS (2:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	3.942 TFLOPS
Pipelines	1408	2x 4096
Pixel fill rate	44.80 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	123.2 GTexel/s	2x 217.6 GTexel / s billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	125 Watt	300 Watt
Transistor count	6400 million	8,900 million
Floating-point performance		2x 6,963 gflops
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	4x DisplayPort	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x8	PCIe 3.0 x16
Length	267 mm (10.5 inches)	267 mm
Recommended system power (PSU)	350 Watt
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin	2x 8-pin
Width	Single-slot
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	2x 4 GB
Memory bandwidth	224 GB/s	2x 512.0 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 bit	2x 4096 Bit
Memory clock speed	1750 MHz (14000 MHz effective)	1000 MHz
Memory type	GDDR6	HBM