FirePro D700 vs Radeon RX 5500

Place in the ranking	246	370
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Power efficiency	14.32	3.54
Architecture	RDNA 1.0 (2019−2020)	GCN 1.0 (2011−2020)
GPU code name	Navi 14	Tahiti
Market segment	Desktop	Workstation
Release date	7 October 2019 (5 years ago)	18 January 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 cores	1408	2048
Core clock speed	no data	850 MHz
Boost clock speed	1845 MHz	no data
Number of transistors	6,400 million	4,313 million
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm	28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	110 Watt	274 Watt
Texture fill rate	162.4	108.8
Floating-point processing power	5.196 TFLOPS	3.482 TFLOPS
ROPs	32	32
TMUs	88	128

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 4.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
Length	180 mm	279 mm
Width	2-slot	2-slot
Supplementary power connectors	1x 8-pin	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	GDDR6	GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	6 GB
Memory bus width	128 Bit	384 Bit
Memory clock speed	14000 MHz	1370 MHz
Memory bandwidth	224.0 GB/s	263.0 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 HDMI, 3x DisplayPort	6x mini-DisplayPort, 1x SDI
HDMI	+	-

API compatibility

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

DirectX	12.0 (12_1)	12 (11_1)
Shader Model	no data	5.1
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
OpenCL	no data	1.2
Vulkan	-	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	22.76	14.01
Recency	7 October 2019	18 January 2014
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	6 GB
Chip lithography	7 nm	28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	110 Watt	274 Watt

RX 5500 has a 62.5% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 5 years, a 300% more advanced lithography process, and 149.1% lower power consumption.

FirePro D700, on the other hand, has a 50% higher maximum VRAM amount.

The Radeon RX 5500 is our recommended choice as it beats the FirePro D700 in performance tests.

Be aware that Radeon RX 5500 is a desktop card while FirePro D700 is a workstation one.

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