ATI Radeon X1800 CrossFire Edition vs Pro WX 5100

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking366not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation6.20no data
Power efficiency13.17no data
ArchitectureGCN 4.0 (2016−2020)R500 (2005−2007)
GPU code nameEllesmereR520
Market segmentWorkstationDesktop
Release date18 November 2016 (8 years ago)20 December 2005 (19 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 cores1792no data
Core clock speed713 MHz600 MHz
Boost clock speed1086 MHzno data
Number of transistors5,700 million321 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm90 nm
Power consumption (TDP)75 Watt113 Watt
Texture fill rate121.69.600
Floating-point processing power3.892 TFLOPSno data
ROPs3216
TMUs11216

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 1.0 x16
Width1-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNone1x 6-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 typeGDDR5GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount8 GB512 MB
Memory bus width256 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed1250 MHz700 MHz
Memory bandwidth160.0 GB/s44.8 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 DisplayPort2x DVI, 1x S-Video

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_0)9.0c (9_3)
Shader Model6.43.0
OpenGL4.62.0
OpenCL2.0N/A
Vulkan1.2.131N/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 18 November 2016 20 December 2005
Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 512 MB
Chip lithography 14 nm 90 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 75 Watt 113 Watt

Pro WX 5100 has an age advantage of 10 years, a 1500% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 542.9% more advanced lithography process, and 50.7% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon Pro WX 5100 and Radeon X1800 CrossFire Edition. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon Pro WX 5100 is a workstation graphics card while Radeon X1800 CrossFire Edition is a desktop one.


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