Radeon RX 550 640SP vs FirePro D500
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 550 640SP and 3GB VRAM FirePro D500 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon RX 550 640SP Advantages
Released 3 years and 9 months late
Boost Clock1071MHz
Lower TDP (60W vs 274W)
FirePro D500 Advantages
More VRAM (3GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (243.8GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)
896 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon RX 550 640SP
1371
FirePro D500
+62%
2227
Graphics Card
Oct 2017
Release Date
Jan 2014
Polaris
Generation
FirePro
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x8
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1019 MHz
Base Clock
-
1071 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1500 MHz
Memory Clock
1270 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
3GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
384bit
96.00GB/s
Bandwidth
243.8GB/s
Render Config
10
Compute Units
24
640
Shading Units
1536
40
TMUs
96
16
ROPs
32
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
1024 KB
L2 Cache
768 KB
Theoretical Performance
17.14 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
23.20 GPixel/s
42.84 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
69.60 GTexel/s
1371 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
1371 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.227 TFLOPS
85.68 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
556.8 GFLOPS
Board Design
60W
TDP
274W
250 W
Suggested PSU
600 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0b
1x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x HDMI 2.0b
1x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
1x SDI
1x SDI
None
Power Connectors
-
Graphics Processor
Baffin
GPU Name
Tahiti
Baffin LE
GPU Variant
Tahiti LE GL
GCN 4.0
Architecture
GCN 1.0
GlobalFoundries
Foundry
TSMC
14 nm
Process Size
28 nm
3 billion
Transistors
4.313 billion
123 mm²
Die Size
352 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_0)
DirectX
12 (11_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
2.1
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
Vulkan
1.2
6.4
Shader Model
5.1
