AMD Radeon Pro W5500: specs and benchmarks

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 ranking	200
Value for money	54.60
Architecture	RDNA 1.0 (2019−2020)
GPU code name	Navi 14
Market segment	Workstation
Release date	10 February 2020 (3 years old)
Launch price (MSRP)	$399
Current price	$308 (0.8x MSRP)	of 168889 (A100 PCIe 80 GB)

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 cores	1408	of 20480 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)
Boost clock speed	1400 MHz	of 3599 (Radeon RX 7990 XTX)
Number of transistors	6,400 million	of 14400 (GeForce GTX 1070 SLI Mobile)
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm	of 4 (GeForce RTX 4080)
Power consumption (TDP)	125 Watt	of 2400 (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)
Texture fill rate	123.2	of 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).

Interface	PCIe 4.0 x8
Length	267 mm
Width	1-slot
Supplementary power connectors	1x 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 type	GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	of 192 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Memory bus width	128 Bit	of 19000 (GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB)
Memory clock speed	14000 MHz	of 22400 (GeForce RTX 4080)
Memory bandwidth	224.0 GB/s	of 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 Connectors

4x DisplayPort

API support

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

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

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of Radeon Pro W5500. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.

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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.

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 perfomance

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

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