AMD Radeon 550X vs AMD Radeon Pro WX 8100

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon 550X and 8GB VRAM Radeon Pro WX 8100 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon 550X 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 3 months late

Lower TDP (50W vs 230W)

AMD Radeon Pro WX 8100 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 23% (1500MHz vs 1218MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 112.0GB/s)

3072 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon 550X

1.247 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro WX 8100 +762%

10.75 TFLOPS

Radeon 550X

VS

Radeon Pro WX 8100

Graphics Card

Mar 2019

Release Date

Dec 2017

Polaris

Generation

Radeon Pro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1082 MHz

Base Clock

1200 MHz

1218 MHz

Boost Clock

1500 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

HBM2

128bit

Memory Bus

2048bit

112.0GB/s

Bandwidth

512.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

8

Compute Units

56

512

Shading Units

3584

32

TMUs

224

16

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

19.49 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

96.00 GPixel/s

38.98 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

336.0 GTexel/s

1247 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

21.50 TFLOPS

1247 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

10.75 TFLOPS

77.95 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

672.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Lexa

GPU Name

Vega 10

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GPU Variant

Vega 10 XL (215-0894216)

GCN 4.0

Architecture

GCN 5.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

14 nm

Process Size

14 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

12.5 billion

103 mm²

Die Size

495 mm²

Board Design

50W

TDP

230W

250 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0b 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

2.1

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.4

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