FirePro D500 vs Radeon RX 550

Place in the ranking	548	426
Place by popularity	22	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	2.92	no data
Power efficiency	9.86	2.76
Architecture	GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)	GCN 1.0 (2011−2020)
GPU code name	Lexa	Tahiti
Market segment	Desktop	Workstation
Release date	20 April 2017 (7 years ago)	18 January 2014 (10 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$79	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 cores	512	1536
Core clock speed	1100 MHz	725 MHz
Boost clock speed	1183 MHz	no data
Number of transistors	2,200 million	4,313 million
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	50 Watt	274 Watt
Texture fill rate	37.86	69.60
Floating-point processing power	1.211 TFLOPS	2.227 TFLOPS
ROPs	16	32
TMUs	32	96

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).

Interface	PCIe 3.0 x8	PCIe 3.0 x16
Length	145 mm	279 mm
Width	2-slot	2-slot
Supplementary power connectors	None	no 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 type	GDDR5	GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	3 GB
Memory bus width	128 Bit	384 Bit
Memory clock speed	1750 MHz	1270 MHz
Memory bandwidth	112.0 GB/s	243.8 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 Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort	6x mini-DisplayPort, 1x SDI
HDMI	+	-

API compatibility

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

DirectX	12 (12_0)	12 (11_1)
Shader Model	6.4	5.1
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
OpenCL	2.0	1.2
Vulkan	1.2.131	1.2.131

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	7.07	10.83
Recency	20 April 2017	18 January 2014
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	3 GB
Chip lithography	14 nm	28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	50 Watt	274 Watt

RX 550 has an age advantage of 3 years, a 33.3% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 100% more advanced lithography process, and 448% lower power consumption.

FirePro D500, on the other hand, has a 53.2% higher aggregate performance score.

The FirePro D500 is our recommended choice as it beats the Radeon RX 550 in performance tests.

Be aware that Radeon RX 550 is a desktop card while FirePro D500 is a workstation one.

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