AMD FirePro D500 vs NVIDIA A2

VS

AMD FirePro D500 NVIDIA A2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM FirePro D500 and 16GB VRAM A2 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 200.1GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA A2 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1770MHz

More VRAM (16GB vs 3GB)

Lower TDP (60W vs 274W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro D500

2.227 TFLOPS

A2 +103%

4.531 TFLOPS

FirePro D500

VS

A2

Graphics Card

Jan 2014

Release Date

Nov 2021

FirePro

Generation

Quadro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1440 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1770 MHz

1270 MHz

Memory Clock

1563 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

243.8GB/s

Bandwidth

200.1GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

10

24

Compute Units

-

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

56.64 GPixel/s

69.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

70.80 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

4.531 TFLOPS

2.227 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.531 TFLOPS

556.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

70.80 GFLOPS

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

Board Design

274W

TDP

60W

600 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2 1x SDI

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

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

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