Radeon Pro W5500: specs and benchmarks

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Aggregate performance score

Radeon Pro W5500 provides acceptable gaming and benchmark performance at 23.64% of a leader's which is GeForce RTX 4090.

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 a single-slot graphics 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.

Primary details

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

Place in performance ranking234
Place by popularitynot in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation45.40
ArchitectureRDNA 1.0 (2019−2020)
GPU code nameNavi 14
Market segmentWorkstation
Release date10 February 2020 (4 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$399 of 14,999 (Quadro Plex 7000)

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

Detailed specifications

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 MHz (Radeon RX 7990 XTX)
Number of transistors6,400 millionof 208,000 million (B200 SXM 192 GB)
Manufacturing process technology7 nmof 4 nm (H100 PCIe)
Power consumption (TDP)125 Wattof 2400 Watt (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)
Texture fill rate123.2of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Floating-point performance3.942 gflopsof 96.77 (GeForce RTX TITAN Ada)

Form factor & 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

VRAM capacity and type

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 294912 (Radeon Instinct MI325X)
Memory bus width128 Bitof 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speed14000 MHzof 23000 (GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER)
Memory bandwidth224.0 GB/sof 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X)

Connectivity and outputs

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 compatibility

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 23.64

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.

Pro W5500 9117

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.

Closest competitors

Radeon Pro W5500's performance relative to its closest rivals among server graphics cards.


Quadro M5000 103.13
Quadro P2200 102.16
Radeon Pro W5500 100
Tesla P4 96.15

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 8 positions in our ranking.

Here are some closest NVIDIA rivals to Radeon Pro W5500:

Quadro M5000 103.13
Quadro P2200 102.16
Radeon Pro W5500 100
Tesla P4 96.15
Quadro K6000 88.45
Tesla M60 82.83

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Community ratings

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