Radeon Pro W5500 vs PRO WX 9100

Place in performance ranking	150	215
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Cost-Effectiveness Evaluation	8.45	46.26
Architecture	GCN 5.0 (2017−2020)	RDNA 1.0 (2019−2020)
GPU code name	Vega 10	Navi 14
Market segment	Workstation	Workstation
Release date	10 July 2017 (6 years ago)	10 February 2020 (4 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$1,599	$399
Current price	$1880 (1.2x MSRP)	$308 (0.8x MSRP)

Cost-Effectiveness Evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

Pro W5500 has 447% better value for money than PRO WX 9100.

Detailed Specifications

General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	4096	1408
Core clock speed	1200 MHz	no data
Boost clock speed	1500 MHz	1400 MHz
Number of transistors	12,500 million	6,400 million
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	230 Watt	125 Watt
Texture fill rate	384.0	123.2
Floating-point performance	12,288 gflops	no data

Form Factor & Compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 4.0 x8
Length	267 mm	267 mm
Width	2-slot	1-slot
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin	1x 6-pin

Memory type	HBM2	GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount	16 GB	8 GB
Memory bus width	2048 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1890 MHz	14000 MHz
Memory bandwidth	483.8 GB/s	224.0 GB/s

Connectivity and Outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors

6x mini-DisplayPort

4x DisplayPort

API Compatibility

List of supported graphics and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX	12 (12_1)	12 (12_1)
Shader Model	6.4	6.5
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
OpenCL	2.0	2.0
Vulkan	1.1.125	1.2.131

Synthetic benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmark performance comparison. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.

Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark performance score. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

PRO WX 9100 33.18
+40.4%

Pro W5500 23.63

PRO WX 9100 outperforms Pro W5500 by 40% based on our aggregated benchmark results.

Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark, part of Passmark PerformanceTest suite. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.

Benchmark coverage: 25%

PRO WX 9100 12843
+40.4%

Pro W5500 9146

PRO WX 9100 outperforms Pro W5500 by 40% in Passmark.

Gaming performance

Let's see how good the compared graphics cards are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.

Pros & Cons Summary

Performance score	33.18	23.63
Recency	10 July 2017	10 February 2020
Cost	$1599	$399
Maximum RAM amount	16 GB	8 GB
Chip lithography	14 nm	7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	230 Watt	125 Watt