AMD FirePro D500 vs NVIDIA GeForce 205 OEM
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM FirePro D500 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 205 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD FirePro D500 's Advantages
Released 4 years and 2 months late
More VRAM (3GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (243.8GB/s vs 6.400GB/s)
1520 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce 205 OEM 's Advantages
Lower TDP (31W vs 274W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FirePro D500
+4848%
2.227 TFLOPS
GeForce 205 OEM
0.045 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jan 2014
Release Date
Nov 2009
FirePro
Generation
GeForce 200
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
1270 MHz
Memory Clock
400 MHz
Memory
3GB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
DDR2
384bit
Memory Bus
64bit
243.8GB/s
Bandwidth
6.400GB/s
Render Config
24
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
2
1536
Shading Units
16
96
TMUs
8
32
ROPs
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
768 KB
L2 Cache
32 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
23.20 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
2.356 GPixel/s
69.60 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
4.712 GTexel/s
-
-
-
2.227 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
44.86 GFLOPS
556.8 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
274W
TDP
31W
600 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
1x SDI
Outputs
1x DVI
1x DisplayPort
1x VGA
-
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Tahiti
GPU Name
GT218
Tahiti LE GL
GPU Variant
GT218-200-B1
GCN 1.0
Architecture
Tesla 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
40 nm
4.313 billion
Transistors
0.26 billion
352 mm²
Die Size
57 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_1)
DirectX
11.1 (10_1)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
1.2
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
1.2
5.1
Shader Model
4.1
