Radeon Vega 7 vs Pro W5500

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Aggregate performance score

We've compared Radeon Pro W5500 with Radeon Vega 7, including specs and performance data.

Pro W5500
2020
8 GB GDDR6, 125 Watt
23.67
+217%

Pro W5500 outperforms Vega 7 by a whopping 217% based on our aggregate benchmark results.

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking237532
Place by popularitynot in top-10018
Cost-effectiveness evaluation43.24no data
Power efficiency12.9811.38
ArchitectureRDNA 1.0 (2019−2020)GCN 5.1 (2018−2022)
GPU code nameNavi 14Cezanne
Market segmentWorkstationLaptop
Release date10 February 2020 (4 years ago)13 April 2021 (3 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 cores1408448
Core clock speed1187 MHz300 MHz
Boost clock speed1400 MHz1900 MHz
Number of transistors6,400 million9,800 million
Manufacturing process technology7 nm7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)125 Watt45 Watt
Texture fill rate123.253.20
Floating-point processing power3.942 TFLOPS1.702 TFLOPS
ROPs328
TMUs8828

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 x8IGP
Length267 mmno data
Width1-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pinNone

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 typeGDDR6System Shared
Maximum RAM amount8 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width128 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed1750 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth224.0 GB/sno data
Shared memory-+

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 DisplayPortNo outputs

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 (12_1)12 (12_1)
Shader Model6.56.4
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.02.1
Vulkan1.2.1311.2

Gaming performance

Let's see how good the compared graphics cards are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.

Average FPS across all PC games

Here are the average frames per second in a large set of popular games across different resolutions:

Full HD65−70
+195%
22
−195%
1440p100−110
+213%
32
−213%
4K50−55
+213%
16
−213%

Cost per frame, $

1080p6.14no data
1440p3.99no data
4K7.98no data

Pros & cons summary


Performance score 23.67 7.47
Recency 10 February 2020 13 April 2021
Power consumption (TDP) 125 Watt 45 Watt

Pro W5500 has a 216.9% higher aggregate performance score.

Vega 7, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 1 year, and 177.8% lower power consumption.

The Radeon Pro W5500 is our recommended choice as it beats the Radeon Vega 7 in performance tests.

Be aware that Radeon Pro W5500 is a workstation card while Radeon Vega 7 is a notebook one.


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