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AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT vs AMD FirePro W5000

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 6500 XT and 2GB VRAM FirePro W5000 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT 's Advantages
Released 9 years and 5 months late
Boost Clock2815MHz
More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (143.9GB/s vs 102.4GB/s)
256 additional rendering cores
AMD FirePro W5000 's Advantages
Lower TDP (75W vs 107W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)
Radeon RX 6500 XT +355%
5.765 TFLOPS
FirePro W5000
1.267 TFLOPS

Graphics Card

Jan 2022
Release Date
Aug 2012
Navi II
Generation
FirePro
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x4
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

2310 MHz
Base Clock
-
2815 MHz
Boost Clock
-
2248 MHz
Memory Clock
800 MHz

Memory

4GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR5
64bit
Memory Bus
256bit
143.9GB/s
Bandwidth
102.4GB/s

Render Config

16
Compute Units
12
-
-
-
1024
Shading Units
768
64
TMUs
48
32
ROPs
32
-
-
-
16
RT Cores
-
128 KB per Array
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
1024 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
16 MB
L3 Cache
-

Theoretical Performance

90.08 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
26.40 GPixel/s
180.2 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
39.60 GTexel/s
11.53 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
5.765 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1267 GFLOPS
360.3 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
79.20 GFLOPS

Board Design

107W
TDP
75W
300 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
1x HDMI 2.1 1x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x DVI 2x DisplayPort 1.2
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None

Graphics Processor

Navi 24
GPU Name
Pitcairn
Navi 24 XT (215-135000006)
GPU Variant
Pitcairn LE GL
RDNA 2.0
Architecture
GCN 1.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
6 nm
Process Size
28 nm
5.4 billion
Transistors
2.8 billion
107 mm²
Die Size
212 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
12 (11_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
2.2
OpenCL
1.2
1.3
Vulkan
1.2
-
-
-
6.6
Shader Model
5.1
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