FirePro D500 vs Radeon Pro WX 5100

Aggregate performance score

We've compared Radeon Pro WX 5100 and FirePro D500, covering specs and all relevant benchmarks.

Pro WX 5100
2016
8 GB GDDR5, 75 Watt
14.40
+33%

Pro WX 5100 outperforms D500 by a substantial 33% based on our aggregate benchmark results.

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking361422
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation6.06no data
Power efficiency13.302.74
ArchitectureGCN 4.0 (2016−2020)GCN 1.0 (2011−2020)
GPU code nameEllesmereTahiti
Market segmentWorkstationWorkstation
Release date18 November 2016 (7 years ago)18 January 2014 (10 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$499 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 cores17921536
Core clock speed713 MHz725 MHz
Boost clock speed1086 MHzno data
Number of transistors5,700 million4,313 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)75 Watt274 Watt
Texture fill rate121.669.60
Floating-point processing power3.892 TFLOPS2.227 TFLOPS
ROPs3232
TMUs11296

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 3.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x16
Lengthno data279 mm
Width1-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno data

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 typeGDDR5GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount8 GB3 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit384 Bit
Memory clock speed1250 MHz1270 MHz
Memory bandwidth160.0 GB/s243.8 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 DisplayPort6x mini-DisplayPort, 1x SDI

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_0)12 (11_1)
Shader Model6.45.1
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.01.2
Vulkan1.2.1311.2.131

Gaming performance

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

Pros & cons summary


Performance score 14.40 10.83
Recency 18 November 2016 18 January 2014
Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 3 GB
Chip lithography 14 nm 28 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 75 Watt 274 Watt

Pro WX 5100 has a 33% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 2 years, a 166.7% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 100% more advanced lithography process, and 265.3% lower power consumption.

The Radeon Pro WX 5100 is our recommended choice as it beats the FirePro D500 in performance tests.


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