Radeon RX 580 OEM vs Pro WX 5100

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking362not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation6.13no data
Power efficiency13.38no data
ArchitectureGCN 4.0 (2016−2020)GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)
GPU code nameEllesmereEllesmere
Market segmentWorkstationDesktop
Release date18 November 2016 (8 years ago)29 June 2016 (8 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$499 $229

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores17922304
Core clock speed713 MHz1120 MHz
Boost clock speed1086 MHz1266 MHz
Number of transistors5,700 million5,700 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)75 Watt150 Watt
Texture fill rate121.6182.3
Floating-point processing power3.892 TFLOPS5.834 TFLOPS
ROPs3232
TMUs112144

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).

InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x16
Lengthno data241 mm
Width1-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNone1x 6-pin

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR5GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount8 GB8 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed1250 MHz2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth160.0 GB/s256.0 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 Connectors4x DisplayPort1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
HDMI-+

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 (12_0)12 (12_0)
Shader Model6.46.4
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.02.0
Vulkan1.2.1311.2.131

Pros & cons summary


Recency 18 November 2016 29 June 2016
Power consumption (TDP) 75 Watt 150 Watt

Pro WX 5100 has an age advantage of 4 months, and 100% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon Pro WX 5100 and Radeon RX 580 OEM. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon Pro WX 5100 is a workstation graphics card while Radeon RX 580 OEM is a desktop one.


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AMD Radeon Pro WX 5100
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