AMD Radeon RX 5500 vs AMD Radeon Pro WX Vega M GL

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 5500 and AMD Radeon Pro WX Vega M GL videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, Memory, Technologies, Video outputs and ports, API support. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 5500

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 8 month(s) later
  • Around 79% higher core clock speed: 1670 MHz vs 931 MHz
  • Around 82% higher boost clock speed: 1845 MHz vs 1011 MHz
  • Around 90% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 8803 vs 4643
  • Around 89% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 766 vs 405
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 7 Oct 2019 vs 1 February 2018
Core clock speed 1670 MHz vs 931 MHz
Boost clock speed 1845 MHz vs 1011 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 8803 vs 4643
PassMark - G2D Mark 766 vs 405

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Pro WX Vega M GL

  • 498.2x more texture fill rate: 80.88 GTexel/s vs 162.36 GT/s
Texture fill rate 80.88 GTexel/s vs 162.36 GT/s

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 5500
GPU 2: AMD Radeon Pro WX Vega M GL

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
8803
4643
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
766
405
Name AMD Radeon RX 5500 AMD Radeon Pro WX Vega M GL
PassMark - G3D Mark 8803 4643
PassMark - G2D Mark 766 405
Geekbench - OpenCL 42314
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 12069
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3717
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3351
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 12069
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3717
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3351
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 4813

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon RX 5500 AMD Radeon Pro WX Vega M GL

Essentials

Architecture RDNA GCN 4.0
Launch date 7 Oct 2019 1 February 2018
Place in performance rating 257 252
Type Desktop Mobile workstation
Code name Polaris 22

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1845 MHz 1011 MHz
Compute units 22
Core clock speed 1670 MHz 931 MHz
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 10.4 TFLOPs 2.588 TFLOPS
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 5.2 TFLOPs 2.588 TFLOPS
Pixel fill rate 59 GP/s 32.35 GPixel/s
Stream Processors 1408
Texture fill rate 162.36 GT/s 80.88 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 150 Watt
Transistor count 6400 million 5000 million
Compute performance 20
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 161.8 GFLOPS
Pipelines 1280
Texture Units 65 Watt

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Recommended system power (PSU) 550 Watt
Supplementary power connectors 1 x 8-pin
Interface IGP

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 4 GB
Memory bandwidth 224 GB/s 179.2 GB/s
Memory bus width 128 bit 1024 bit
Memory type GDDR6 HBM2
High bandwidth memory (HBM)
Memory clock speed 700 MHz (1400 MHz effective)

Technologies

4K H264 Decode
4K H264 Encode
H265/HEVC Decode
H265/HEVC Encode
HDMI 4K Support
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)
Video Code Engine (VCE)

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs

API support

DirectX 12
OpenCL 2.0
OpenGL 4.6
Shader Model 6.3
Vulkan