Radeon RX 5500 OEM vs Pro W5500

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking237not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation43.24no data
Power efficiency12.98no data
ArchitectureRDNA 1.0 (2019−2020)RDNA 1.0 (2019−2020)
GPU code nameNavi 14Navi 14
Market segmentWorkstationDesktop
Release date10 February 2020 (4 years ago)7 October 2019 (5 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$399 no data

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 cores14081408
Core clock speed1187 MHz1500 MHz
Boost clock speed1400 MHz1845 MHz
Number of transistors6,400 million6,400 million
Manufacturing process technology7 nm7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)125 Watt110 Watt
Texture fill rate123.2162.4
Floating-point processing power3.942 TFLOPS5.196 TFLOPS
ROPs3232
TMUs8888

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 4.0 x8PCIe 4.0 x8
Length267 mm180 mm
Width1-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pin1x 8-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 typeGDDR6GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount8 GB4 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed1750 MHz1750 MHz
Memory bandwidth224.0 GB/s224.0 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_1)12 (12_1)
Shader Model6.56.5
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.02.0
Vulkan1.2.1311.2.131

Pros & cons summary


Recency 10 February 2020 7 October 2019
Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 4 GB
Power consumption (TDP) 125 Watt 110 Watt

Pro W5500 has an age advantage of 4 months, and a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount.

RX 5500 OEM, on the other hand, has 13.6% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon Pro W5500 and Radeon RX 5500 OEM. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon Pro W5500 is a workstation graphics card while Radeon RX 5500 OEM is a desktop one.


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