AMD FirePro D500 vs NVIDIA A16 PCIe
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM FirePro D500 and 16GB VRAM A16 PCIe to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD FirePro D500 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (243.8GB/s vs 231.9GB/s)
256 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA A16 PCIe 's Advantages
Released 7 years and 3 months late
Boost Clock1695MHz
More VRAM (16GB vs 3GB)
Lower TDP (250W vs 274W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FirePro D500
2.227 TFLOPS
A16 PCIe
+94%
4.339 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jan 2014
Release Date
Apr 2021
FirePro
Generation
Tesla
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x8
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
885 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1695 MHz
1270 MHz
Memory Clock
1812 MHz
Memory
3GB
Memory Size
16GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
384bit
Memory Bus
128bit
243.8GB/s
Bandwidth
231.9GB/s
Render Config
24
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
10
1536
Shading Units
1280
96
TMUs
40
32
ROPs
32
-
Tensor Cores
40
-
RT Cores
10
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
768 KB
L2 Cache
2 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
23.20 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
54.24 GPixel/s
69.60 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
67.80 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
4.339 TFLOPS
2.227 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
4.339 TFLOPS
556.8 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
135.6 GFLOPS
Board Design
274W
TDP
250W
600 W
Suggested PSU
600 W
6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
1x SDI
Outputs
No outputs
-
Power Connectors
8-pin EPS
Graphics Processor
Tahiti
GPU Name
GA107
Tahiti LE GL
GPU Variant
-
GCN 1.0
Architecture
Ampere
TSMC
Foundry
Samsung
28 nm
Process Size
8 nm
4.313 billion
Transistors
Unknown
352 mm²
Die Size
Unknown
Graphics Features
12 (11_1)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
1.2
OpenCL
3.0
1.2
Vulkan
1.3
-
CUDA
8.6
5.1
Shader Model
6.6
