Radeon Pro W5500: specs and benchmarks

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Aggregated performance score

It provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at 23.62% of a leader's which is GeForce RTX 4090.

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Summary

AMD started Radeon Pro W5500 sales 10 February 2020 at a recommended price of $399 . This is a RDNA 1.0 architecture desktop card based on 7 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at designers. 8 GB of GDDR6 memory clocked at 14 GHz are supplied, and together with 128 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 224.0 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is single-slot card attached via PCIe 4.0 x8 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 267 mm. 1x 6-pin power connector is required, and power consumption is at 125 Watt.

General info

Some basic facts about Radeon Pro W5500: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in performance ranking215
Place by popularitynot in top-100
Value for money46.18
ArchitectureRDNA 1.0 (2019−2020)
GPU code nameNavi 14
Market segmentWorkstation
Release date10 February 2020 (4 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$399
Current price$308 (0.8x MSRP)of 168889 (A100 PCIe 80 GB)

Value for money

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

Technical specs

Radeon Pro W5500's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Radeon Pro W5500's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines / CUDA cores1408of 20480 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)
Boost clock speed1400 MHzof 3599 (Radeon RX 7990 XTX)
Number of transistors6,400 millionof 14400 (GeForce GTX 1070 SLI Mobile)
Manufacturing process technology7 nmof 4 (Radeon 780M)
Power consumption (TDP)125 Wattof 2400 (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)
Texture fill rate123.2of 969.9 (H100 SXM5 96 GB)

Size and compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Radeon Pro W5500 and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 4.0 x8
Length267 mm
Width1-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pin

Memory

Parameters of memory installed on Radeon Pro W5500: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.

Memory typeGDDR6
Maximum RAM amount8 GBof 192 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Memory bus width128 Bitof 8192 (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speed14000 MHzof 23000 (GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER)
Memory bandwidth224.0 GB/sof 3276 (Aldebaran)

Video outputs and ports

Types and number of video connectors present on Radeon Pro W5500. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.

Display Connectors4x DisplayPort

API support

APIs supported by Radeon Pro W5500, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX12 (12_1)
Shader Model6.5
OpenGL4.6
OpenCL2.0
Vulkan1.2.131

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of Radeon Pro W5500. 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 W5500 23.62

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 W5500 9146

Gaming performance

Let's see how good Radeon Pro W5500 is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in frames per second. Comparisons with game system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect reality inaccurately.

Relative performance

Overall Radeon Pro W5500 performance compared to nearest competitors among server video cards.


Tesla M40 111.3
Quadro M5000 102.54
Quadro P2200 101.91
Radeon Pro W5500 100
Tesla P4 95.85

NVIDIA equivalent

According to our data, the closest NVIDIA alternative to Radeon Pro W5500 is Quadro P2200, which is faster by 2% and higher by 5 positions in our ranking.

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Here are some closest NVIDIA rivals to Radeon Pro W5500:

Tesla M40 111.3
Quadro M5000 102.54
Quadro P2200 101.91
Radeon Pro W5500 100
Tesla P4 95.85
Tesla M60 86.66

Similar GPUs

Here is our recommendation of several graphics cards that are more or less close in performance to the one reviewed.

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Recommended processors

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User Ratings

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