Radeon RX 550 and FirePro D500 - video card comparison

Radeon RX 550

FirePro D500

Architecture

GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)

GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)

GPU code name

Lexa

Tahiti

Market segment

Desktop

Workstation

Release date

April 2017

January 2014

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

PCIe 3.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

None

-

Boost clock speed

1183 MHz

-

Core clock speed

1100 MHz

725 MHz

Floating-point performance

1,211 gflops

2,227 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

14 nm

28 nm

Number of transistors

2,200 million

4,313 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

512

1536

Power consumption (TDP)

50 Watt

274 Watt

Texture fill rate

37.86

69.60

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

4 GB

3 GB

Memory bus width

128 Bit

384 Bit

Memory clock speed

7000 MHz

5080 MHz

Memory bandwidth

112.0 GB/s

243.8 GB/s

Display Connectors

1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort

6x mini-DisplayPort, 1x SDI

HDMI

+

-

DirectX

12 (12_0)

12 (11_1)

OpenCL

2.0

1.2

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Shader Model

6.4

5.1

Vulkan

1.2.131

1.2.131