AMD Radeon Pro W5500X vs AMD Radeon R9 390

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon Pro W5500X and AMD Radeon R9 390 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), 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), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Pro W5500X

  • Around 86% higher boost clock speed: 1855 MHz vs 1000 MHz
  • 1736.9x more texture fill rate: 277.9 GTexel/s vs 160.0 GTexel / s
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 7 nm vs 28 nm
  • Around 34% lower typical power consumption: 205 Watt vs 275 Watt
  • 14x more memory clock speed: 14000 MHz vs 1000 MHz
Specifications (specs)
Boost clock speed 1855 MHz vs 1000 MHz
Texture fill rate 277.9 GTexel/s vs 160.0 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology 7 nm vs 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 205 Watt vs 275 Watt
Memory clock speed 14000 MHz vs 1000 MHz
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3721 vs 3708
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3721 vs 3708
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3360 vs 3353
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3360 vs 3353

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 390

  • Around 67% higher pipelines: 2560 vs 1536
  • Around 10% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 799 vs 729
  • Around 21% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 8928 vs 7351
Specifications (specs)
Pipelines 2560 vs 1536
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 799 vs 729
PassMark - G3D Mark 8928 vs 7351

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon Pro W5500X
GPU 2: AMD Radeon R9 390

GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3721
3708
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3721
3708
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3360
3353
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3360
3353
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
729
799
PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
7351
8928
Name AMD Radeon Pro W5500X AMD Radeon R9 390
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3721 3708
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3721 3708
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3360 3353
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3360 3353
PassMark - G2D Mark 729 799
PassMark - G3D Mark 7351 8928
Geekbench - OpenCL 44112
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 120.267
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 3164.164
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 11.097
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 116.473
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 607.381
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 10445
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 10445
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 3957

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon Pro W5500X AMD Radeon R9 390

Essentials

Architecture RDNA 1.0 GCN 2.0
Code name Navi 10 Grenada
Launch date Q3'2020 18 June 2015
Place in performance rating 310 296
Type Workstation Desktop
Design AMD Radeon R9 300 Series
Launch price (MSRP) $329

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1855 MHz 1000 MHz
Compute units 20 40
Core clock speed 1243 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 7 nm 28 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 2560
Pixel fill rate 123.5 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 277.9 GTexel/s 160.0 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 205 Watt 275 Watt
Transistor count 10300 million 6,200 million
Floating-point performance 5,120 gflops
Stream Processors 2560

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 4x Thunderbolt 3, 2x HDMI 2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
Eyefinity
HDMI
Number of Eyefinity displays 6
VGA

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Length 12 inches (305 mm) 275 mm
Recommended system power (PSU) 550 Watt
Supplementary power connectors 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin 1 x 6-pin, 1 x 8-pin
Width Dual-slot
Bridgeless CrossFire
Bus support PCIe 3.0

API support

DirectX 12.1 12
OpenCL 2.0 2.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.5
Shader Model 6.4
Vulkan
Mantle

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 8 GB
Memory bandwidth 224 GB/s 384 GB/s
Memory bus width 256 bit 512 bit
Memory clock speed 14000 MHz 1000 MHz
Memory type GDDR6 GDDR5
High bandwidth memory (HBM)

Technologies

AMD Eyefinity
CrossFire
DDMA audio
FreeSync
HD3D
HDMI 4K Support
LiquidVR
PowerTune
TrueAudio
Video Code Engine (VCE)
Virtual Super Resolution (VSR)
ZeroCore