AMD Radeon Pro W5700 vs AMD Radeon R9 295X2

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon Pro W5700 and AMD Radeon R9 295X2 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, GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

AMD Radeon Pro W5700

AMD Radeon R9 295X2

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Pro W5700

Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 6 month(s) later
Around 90% higher boost clock speed: 1930 MHz vs 1018 MHz
127.5x more texture fill rate: 277.9 GTexel/s vs 2x 179.2 GTexel / s billion / sec
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 7 nm vs 28 nm
2.4x lower typical power consumption: 205 Watt vs 500 Watt
11.2x more memory clock speed: 14000 MHz vs 1250 MHz
Around 20% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 904 vs 752
Around 69% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 14707 vs 8681

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	19 Nov 2019 vs 29 April 2014
Boost clock speed	1930 MHz vs 1018 MHz
Texture fill rate	277.9 GTexel/s vs 2x 179.2 GTexel / s billion / sec
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm vs 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	205 Watt vs 500 Watt
Memory clock speed	14000 MHz vs 1250 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	904 vs 752
PassMark - G3D Mark	14707 vs 8681

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 295X2

2.4x more pipelines: 2x 2816 vs 2304

Pipelines	2x 2816 vs 2304

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon Pro W5700
GPU 2: AMD Radeon R9 295X2

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

904

752

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

14707

8681

Name	AMD Radeon Pro W5700	AMD Radeon R9 295X2
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3718
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3718
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3360
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3360
PassMark - G2D Mark	904	752
PassMark - G3D Mark	14707	8681
Geekbench - OpenCL	69290
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	11065
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	11065
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		0

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon Pro W5700	AMD Radeon R9 295X2
Essentials
Architecture	RDNA 1.0	GCN 2.0
Code name	Navi 10	Vesuvius
Launch date	19 Nov 2019	29 April 2014
Launch price (MSRP)	$799	$1,499
Place in performance rating	206	203
Type	Workstation	Desktop
Design		AMD Radeon R9 200 Series
Price now		$1,099.99
Value for money (0-100)		11.14
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1930 MHz	1018 MHz
Compute units	36
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	17.79 TFLOPS (2:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	8.893 TFLOPS
Pipelines	2304	2x 2816
Pixel fill rate	123.5 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	277.9 GTexel/s	2x 179.2 GTexel / s billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	205 Watt	500 Watt
Transistor count	10300 million	6,200 million
Floating-point performance		2x 5,733 gflops
Stream Processors		5632
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	5x mini-DisplayPort, 1x USB Type-C	1x DVI, 4x mini-DisplayPort
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
Eyefinity
HDMI
VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
Length	12 inches (305 mm)	307 mm
Recommended system power (PSU)	550 Watt
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin	2 x 8-pin
Width	Dual-slot
Bus support		PCIe 2.1 x16
API support
DirectX	12.1	12
OpenCL	2.0
OpenGL	4.6	4.5
Shader Model	6.4
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	8 GB
Memory bandwidth	448 GB/s	640 GB/s
Memory bus width	256 bit	2x 512 Bit
Memory clock speed	14000 MHz	1250 MHz
Memory type	GDDR6	GDDR5
Technologies
AMD Eyefinity
CrossFire
DDMA audio
FreeSync
HD3D
LiquidVR
TressFX
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)