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AMD FirePro D500 vs AMD FirePro W9000

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM FirePro D500 and 6GB VRAM FirePro W9000 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro D500 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 7 months late
AMD FirePro W9000 's Advantages
More VRAM (6GB vs 3GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 243.8GB/s)
512 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)
FirePro D500
2.227 TFLOPS
FirePro W9000 +79%
3.994 TFLOPS

Graphics Card

Jan 2014
Release Date
Jun 2012
FirePro
Generation
FirePro
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

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-
-
-
-
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1270 MHz
Memory Clock
1375 MHz

Memory

3GB
Memory Size
6GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
384bit
Memory Bus
384bit
243.8GB/s
Bandwidth
264.0GB/s

Render Config

24
Compute Units
32
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-
-
1536
Shading Units
2048
96
TMUs
128
32
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
768 KB
L2 Cache
768 KB
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-
-

Theoretical Performance

23.20 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
31.20 GPixel/s
69.60 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
124.8 GTexel/s
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2.227 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
3.994 TFLOPS
556.8 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
998.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

274W
TDP
274W
600 W
Suggested PSU
600 W
6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2 1x SDI
Outputs
6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2 1x SDI
-
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Tahiti
GPU Name
Tahiti
Tahiti LE GL
GPU Variant
Tahiti XT GL
GCN 1.0
Architecture
GCN 1.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
28 nm
4.313 billion
Transistors
4.313 billion
352 mm²
Die Size
352 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)
DirectX
12 (11_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
1.2
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
Vulkan
1.2
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-
-
5.1
Shader Model
5.1
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