AMD Radeon Pro W5500M vs AMD Radeon R9 270X

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon Pro W5500M and AMD Radeon R9 270X 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: 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 - 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), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Pro W5500M

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 6 year(s) 4 month(s) later
  • Around 38% higher boost clock speed: 1450 MHz vs 1050 MHz
  • 1519x more texture fill rate: 127.6 GTexel/s vs 84 GTexel / s
  • Around 10% higher pipelines: 1408 vs 1280
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 7 nm vs 28 nm
  • 2.1x lower typical power consumption: 85 Watt vs 180 Watt
  • 2x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 2 GB
  • Around 23% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 9943 vs 8068
  • Around 23% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 9943 vs 8068
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 10 Feb 2020 vs 8 October 2013
Boost clock speed 1450 MHz vs 1050 MHz
Texture fill rate 127.6 GTexel/s vs 84 GTexel / s
Pipelines 1408 vs 1280
Manufacturing process technology 7 nm vs 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 85 Watt vs 180 Watt
Maximum memory size 4 GB vs 2 GB
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3715 vs 3706
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3715 vs 3706
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3356 vs 3350
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3356 vs 3350
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 9943 vs 8068
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 9943 vs 8068

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon Pro W5500M
GPU 2: AMD Radeon R9 270X

GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3715
3706
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3715
3706
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3356
3350
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3356
3350
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
9943
8068
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
9943
8068
Name AMD Radeon Pro W5500M AMD Radeon R9 270X
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3715 3706
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3715 3706
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3356 3350
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3356 3350
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 9943 8068
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 9943 8068
Geekbench - OpenCL 45724
PassMark - G3D Mark 4890
PassMark - G2D Mark 611
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 63.455
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 1314.545
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 6.339
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 85.21
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 315.366
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 1771

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon Pro W5500M AMD Radeon R9 270X

Essentials

Architecture RDNA 1.0 GCN 1.0
Code name Navi 14 Curacao
Launch date 10 Feb 2020 8 October 2013
Place in performance rating 400 441
Type Laptop Desktop
Design AMD Radeon R9 200 Series
Launch price (MSRP) $199
Price now $399
Value for money (0-100) 16.05

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1450 MHz 1050 MHz
Compute units 22
Core clock speed 1000 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 1280
Pixel fill rate 46.40 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 127.6 GTexel/s 84 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 85 Watt 180 Watt
Transistor count 6400 million 2,800 million
Floating-point performance 2,688 gflops
Stream Processors 1280

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs 2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
Eyefinity
HDMI
VGA

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 4.0 x8 PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors None 2 x 6-pin
Bus support PCIe 3.0

API support

DirectX 12.1 12
OpenCL 2.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.5
Shader Model 6.5
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 2 GB
Memory bandwidth 192.0 GB/s 179.2 GB/s
Memory bus width 128 bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 1500 MHz (12000 MHz effective)
Memory type GDDR6 GDDR5
Shared memory 0

Technologies

AMD Eyefinity
AppAcceleration
CrossFire
DDMA audio
FreeSync
HD3D
LiquidVR
TressFX
TrueAudio
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)