AMD Radeon Pro W5500X vs AMD FirePro V7900

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon Pro W5500X and AMD FirePro V7900 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), PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D 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 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Pro W5500X

  • Around 71% higher core clock speed: 1243 MHz vs 725 MHz
  • 4791.4x more texture fill rate: 277.9 GTexel/s vs 58.0 GTexel / s
  • Around 20% higher pipelines: 1536 vs 1280
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 7 nm vs 40 nm
  • 4x more maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 2 GB
  • 2.8x more memory clock speed: 14000 MHz vs 5000 MHz
  • 2.4x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 818 vs 336
  • 3x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 6967 vs 2305
Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed 1243 MHz vs 725 MHz
Texture fill rate 277.9 GTexel/s vs 58.0 GTexel / s
Pipelines 1536 vs 1280
Manufacturing process technology 7 nm vs 40 nm
Maximum memory size 8 GB vs 2 GB
Memory clock speed 14000 MHz vs 5000 MHz
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3721 vs 3710
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3721 vs 3710
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3360 vs 3354
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3360 vs 3354
PassMark - G2D Mark 818 vs 336
PassMark - G3D Mark 6967 vs 2305

Reasons to consider the AMD FirePro V7900

  • Around 36% lower typical power consumption: 151 Watt vs 205 Watt
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 151 Watt vs 205 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon Pro W5500X
GPU 2: AMD FirePro V7900

GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3721
3710
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3721
3710
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3360
3354
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3360
3354
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
818
336
PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
6967
2305
Name AMD Radeon Pro W5500X AMD FirePro V7900
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3721 3710
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3721 3710
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3360 3354
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3360 3354
PassMark - G2D Mark 818 336
PassMark - G3D Mark 6967 2305
Geekbench - OpenCL 27733
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 14.134
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 676.409
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 1.309
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 36.678
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 171.25
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 2996
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 2996

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon Pro W5500X AMD FirePro V7900

Essentials

Architecture RDNA 1.0 TeraScale 3
Code name Navi 10 Cayman
Launch date Q3'2020 24 May 2011
Place in performance rating 294 846
Type Workstation Workstation

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1855 MHz
Compute units 20
Core clock speed 1243 MHz 725 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 7 nm 40 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 555.8 GFLOPS (1:16)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 11.2 TFLOPS (2:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 5.6 TFLOPS
Pipelines 1536 1280
Pixel fill rate 123.5 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 277.9 GTexel/s 58.0 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 205 Watt 151 Watt
Transistor count 10300 million 2,640 million
Floating-point performance 1,856.0 gflops

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 4x Thunderbolt 3, 2x HDMI 4x DisplayPort
DisplayPort count 4
Dual-link DVI support
StereoOutput3D

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
Length 12 inches (305 mm) 279 mm
Recommended system power (PSU) 550 Watt
Supplementary power connectors 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin 1x 6-pin
Width Dual-slot
Bus support PCIe 2.1 x16
Form factor Full Height / Full Length

API support

DirectX 12.1 11.2 (11_0)
OpenCL 2.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.4
Shader Model 6.4
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 2 GB
Memory bandwidth 224 GB/s 160 GB / s
Memory bus width 256 bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 14000 MHz 5000 MHz
Memory type GDDR6 GDDR5