FirePro S9100 vs Radeon Pro W5500M

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking484not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency7.26no data
ArchitectureRDNA 1.0 (2019−2020)GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
GPU code nameNavi 14Hawaii
Market segmentMobile workstationWorkstation
Release date10 February 2020 (4 years ago)2 October 2014 (10 years ago)

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 cores14082560
Core clock speed1000 MHz824 MHz
Boost clock speed1450 MHzno data
Number of transistors6,400 million6,200 million
Manufacturing process technology7 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)85 Watt750 Watt
Texture fill rate127.6131.8
Floating-point processing power4.083 TFLOPS4.219 TFLOPS
ROPs3264
TMUs88160

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).

Bus supportno dataPCIe 3.0
InterfacePCIe 4.0 x8PCIe 3.0 x16
Lengthno data267 mm
Widthno data2-slot
Form factorno datafull height / full length
Supplementary power connectorsNone1x 6-pin + 1x 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 typeGDDR6GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount4 GB12 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit512 Bit
Memory clock speed1500 MHz1250 MHz
Memory bandwidth192.0 GB/s320 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 ConnectorsNo outputsNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_1)12 (12_0)
Shader Model6.56.3
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.02.0
Vulkan1.2.1311.2.131

Pros & cons summary


Recency 10 February 2020 2 October 2014
Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 12 GB
Chip lithography 7 nm 28 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 85 Watt 750 Watt

Pro W5500M has an age advantage of 5 years, a 300% more advanced lithography process, and 782.4% lower power consumption.

FirePro S9100, on the other hand, has a 200% higher maximum VRAM amount.

We couldn't decide between Radeon Pro W5500M and FirePro S9100. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon Pro W5500M is a mobile workstation card while FirePro S9100 is a workstation one.


Should you still have questions concerning choice between the reviewed GPUs, ask them in Comments section, and we shall answer.

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