AMD Radeon Pro W5500M vs AMD FirePro W8000

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon Pro W5500M and AMD FirePro W8000 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: GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), Geekbench - OpenCL, PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Pro W5500M

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 7 year(s) 7 month(s) later
  • Around 11% higher core clock speed: 1000 MHz vs 900 MHz
  • 1265.9x more texture fill rate: 127.6 GTexel/s vs 100.8 GTexel / s
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 7 nm vs 28 nm
  • 4.1x lower typical power consumption: 85 Watt vs 350 Watt
  • Around 34% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 9943 vs 7400
  • Around 34% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 9943 vs 7400
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 10 Feb 2020 vs 14 June 2012
Core clock speed 1000 MHz vs 900 MHz
Texture fill rate 127.6 GTexel/s vs 100.8 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology 7 nm vs 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 85 Watt vs 350 Watt
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 9943 vs 7400
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 9943 vs 7400

Reasons to consider the AMD FirePro W8000

  • Around 27% higher pipelines: 1792 vs 1408
  • 3.7x more memory clock speed: 5500 MHz vs 1500 MHz (12000 MHz effective)
  • Around 82% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 82941 vs 45574
Specifications (specs)
Pipelines 1792 vs 1408
Memory clock speed 5500 MHz vs 1500 MHz (12000 MHz effective)
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3717 vs 3715
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3717 vs 3715
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3357 vs 3356
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3357 vs 3356
Geekbench - OpenCL 82941 vs 45574

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon Pro W5500M
GPU 2: AMD FirePro W8000

GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3715
3717
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3715
3717
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3356
3357
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3356
3357
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
9943
7400
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
9943
7400
Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
45574
82941
Name AMD Radeon Pro W5500M AMD FirePro W8000
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3715 3717
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3715 3717
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3356 3357
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3356 3357
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 9943 7400
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 9943 7400
Geekbench - OpenCL 45574 82941
PassMark - G3D Mark 4149
PassMark - G2D Mark 489
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 64.628
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 387.109

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon Pro W5500M AMD FirePro W8000

Essentials

Architecture RDNA 1.0 GCN 1.0
Code name Navi 14 Tahiti
Launch date 10 Feb 2020 14 June 2012
Place in performance rating 406 409
Type Laptop Workstation
Launch price (MSRP) $1,599

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1450 MHz
Compute units 22
Core clock speed 1000 MHz 900 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 7 nm 28 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 255.2 GFLOPS (1:16)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 8.166 TFLOPS (2:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 4.083 TFLOPS
Pipelines 1408 1792
Pixel fill rate 46.40 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 127.6 GTexel/s 100.8 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 85 Watt 350 Watt
Transistor count 6400 million 4,313 million
Floating-point performance 3,226 gflops

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs 4x DisplayPort, 1x SDI
DisplayPort count 4
Dual-link DVI support
StereoOutput3D

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 4.0 x8 PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors None 2x 6-pin
Bus support PCIe 3.0
Form factor Full Height / Full Length
Length 279 mm

API support

DirectX 12.1 12.0 (11_1)
OpenCL 2.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.5
Shader Model 6.5
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 4 GB
Memory bandwidth 192.0 GB/s 176 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 1500 MHz (12000 MHz effective) 5500 MHz
Memory type GDDR6 GDDR5