Wednesday, February 5th 2020
AMD Readies Radeon Pro W5500, Navi 14 Wears a Suit
AMD is giving final touches to the Radeon Pro W5500, a mid-range professional graphics card, which surfaced on an early listing by workstation builder SabrePC. Going by AMD's new nomenclature for its Radeon Pro W-series graphics cards, the W5500 could possibly be a professional variant of the RX 5500 XT, based on the 7 nm "Navi 14" silicon. It remains to be seen however, if AMD enables all 1,536 stream processors on the silicon, or if it's strictly aligned with the core-configuration of the RX 5500 XT (1,408 stream processors). Currently the only AMD product to max out this silicon is the Radeon Pro 5500M found exclusively in the new 16-inch Apple MacBook Pro.
AMD's Radeon Pro W5500 includes 8 GB of GDDR6 memory across the chip's 128-bit wide memory interface. According to the now-redacted SabrePC listing reported by Tom's Hardware, the W5500 apparently features four DisplayPorts, one short of the W5700, and there's no mention of the card supporting USB-C. The listing also mentions a price of USD $391.57, which, although a placeholder, closely aligns with the card's competitor, the NVIDIA Quadro P2200, which retails around the $400-mark.
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Tom's Hardware
AMD's Radeon Pro W5500 includes 8 GB of GDDR6 memory across the chip's 128-bit wide memory interface. According to the now-redacted SabrePC listing reported by Tom's Hardware, the W5500 apparently features four DisplayPorts, one short of the W5700, and there's no mention of the card supporting USB-C. The listing also mentions a price of USD $391.57, which, although a placeholder, closely aligns with the card's competitor, the NVIDIA Quadro P2200, which retails around the $400-mark.
11 Comments on AMD Readies Radeon Pro W5500, Navi 14 Wears a Suit
Dual slot in this segment looks a bit weird. 7nm heat concentration making trouble?
Competing P2200 is single slot. Even much faster P4000 and RTX4000 are.
In AMD camp: a single slot WX7100 shouldn't be far behind (if at all).
Honestly, they're far from bad. Cards with TDP up to around 150W are totally acceptable.
Larger ones are a bit noisy, but... they won't stand out dramatically in a typical office (people talking, loud ventilation etc).
Every some months news of a new fan whatever improvement.
Last one was some San Ace in December, don't think TPU has reviews/marketing for them so I spare you the PN. ^^