AMD Radeon Pro W5500 vs AMD Radeon R9 M470X

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon Pro W5500 and AMD Radeon R9 M470X 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: 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), PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Pro W5500

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 8 month(s) later
  • Around 19% higher core clock speed: 1187 MHz vs 1000 MHz
  • Around 27% higher boost clock speed: 1400 MHz vs 1100 MHz
  • 2000x more texture fill rate: 123.2 GTexel/s vs 61.6 GTexel / s
  • Around 57% higher pipelines: 1408 vs 896
  • 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 10 Feb 2020 vs 15 May 2016
Core clock speed 1187 MHz vs 1000 MHz
Boost clock speed 1400 MHz vs 1100 MHz
Texture fill rate 123.2 GTexel/s vs 61.6 GTexel / s
Pipelines 1408 vs 896
Manufacturing process technology 7 nm vs 28 nm
Maximum memory size 8 GB vs 4 GB

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 M470X

  • 3.4x more memory clock speed: 6000 MHz vs 1750 MHz (14000 MHz effective)
  • Around 7% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 3715 vs 3463
  • Around 7% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 3715 vs 3463
Specifications (specs)
Memory clock speed 6000 MHz vs 1750 MHz (14000 MHz effective)
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3715 vs 3463
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3359 vs 3355
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3715 vs 3463
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3359 vs 3355

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon Pro W5500
GPU 2: AMD Radeon R9 M470X

GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3463
3715
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3355
3359
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3463
3715
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3355
3359
Name AMD Radeon Pro W5500 AMD Radeon R9 M470X
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 3715
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3355 3359
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 12184
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3463 3715
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3355 3359
PassMark - G3D Mark 3244
PassMark - G2D Mark 426
Geekbench - OpenCL 57109

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon Pro W5500 AMD Radeon R9 M470X

Essentials

Architecture RDNA 1.0 GCN 2.0
Code name Navi 14 Strato
Launch date 10 Feb 2020 15 May 2016
Launch price (MSRP) $399
Place in performance rating 330 459
Type Desktop Laptop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1400 MHz 1100 MHz
Core clock speed 1187 MHz 1000 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 896
Pixel fill rate 44.80 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 123.2 GTexel/s 61.6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 125 Watt
Transistor count 6400 million 2,080 million
Floating-point performance 1,971 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)
Recommended system power (PSU) 350 Watt
Supplementary power connectors 1x 6-pin
Width Single-slot
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 GB/s 96 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 1750 MHz (14000 MHz effective) 6000 MHz
Memory type GDDR6 GDDR5
Shared memory 0

Technologies

DirectCompute 5.0