AMD Radeon RX 5500 vs ATI FirePro RG220

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 5500 and ATI FirePro RG220 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 11 year(s) 5 month(s) later
  • 3.3x more core clock speed: 1670 MHz vs 500 MHz
  • 40.6x more texture fill rate: 162.36 GT/s vs 4 GTexel / s
  • 8x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 512 MB
  • 26.3x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 8801 vs 335
  • Around 39% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 766 vs 552
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 7 Oct 2019 vs 1 May 2008
Core clock speed 1670 MHz vs 500 MHz
Texture fill rate 162.36 GT/s vs 4 GTexel / s
Maximum memory size 4 GB vs 512 MB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 8801 vs 335
PassMark - G2D Mark 766 vs 552

Reasons to consider the ATI FirePro RG220

  • 4.3x lower typical power consumption: 35 Watt vs 150 Watt
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 35 Watt vs 150 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 5500
GPU 2: ATI FirePro RG220

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
8801
335
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
766
552
Name AMD Radeon RX 5500 ATI FirePro RG220
PassMark - G3D Mark 8801 335
PassMark - G2D Mark 766 552
Geekbench - OpenCL 42284
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 ATI FirePro RG220

Essentials

Architecture RDNA TeraScale
Launch date 7 Oct 2019 1 May 2008
Place in performance rating 257 251
Type Desktop Workstation
Code name RV711

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1845 MHz
Compute units 22
Core clock speed 1670 MHz 500 MHz
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 10.4 TFLOPs
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 5.2 TFLOPs
Pixel fill rate 59 GP/s
Stream Processors 1408
Texture fill rate 162.36 GT/s 4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 150 Watt 35 Watt
Transistor count 6400 million 242 million
Floating-point performance 80 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 55 nm
Pipelines 80

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Recommended system power (PSU) 550 Watt
Supplementary power connectors 1 x 8-pin None
Interface PCIe 2.0 x16

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 512 MB
Memory bandwidth 224 GB/s 51.2 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 bit 256 Bit
Memory type GDDR6 GDDR3
Memory clock speed 1600 MHz

Technologies

4K H264 Decode
4K H264 Encode
H265/HEVC Decode
H265/HEVC Encode
HDMI 4K Support

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x DMS-59

API support

DirectX 10.1
OpenGL 3.3