AMD Radeon RX 550 vs ATI FirePro V4900

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 550 and 1024MB VRAM FirePro V4900 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 550 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1183MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (112.0GB/s vs 64.00GB/s)

32 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (50W vs 75W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 550 +57%

1.211 TFLOPS

FirePro V4900

0.768 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 550

VS

FirePro V4900

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Nov 2011

Polaris

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1100 MHz

Base Clock

-

1183 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

112.0GB/s

Bandwidth

64.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

8

Compute Units

6

512

Shading Units

480

32

TMUs

24

16

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

18.93 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.400 GPixel/s

37.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

19.20 GTexel/s

1211 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1211 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

768.0 GFLOPS

75.71 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Lexa

GPU Name

Turks

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GPU Variant

Turks XT GL

GCN 4.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

0.716 billion

103 mm²

Die Size

118 mm²

Board Design

50W

TDP

75W

250 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 2x DisplayPort 1.1

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

2.1

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

5.0

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