AMD FirePro D500 vs NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX 512
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM FirePro D500 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 7800 GTX 512 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD FirePro D500 's Advantages
Released 8 years and 2 months late
More VRAM (3GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (243.8GB/s vs 51.20GB/s)
1536 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX 512 's Advantages
Lower TDP (108W vs 274W)
Score
Graphics Card
Jan 2014
Release Date
Nov 2005
FirePro
Generation
GeForce 7 PCIe
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
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1270 MHz
Memory Clock
800 MHz
Memory
3GB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
384bit
Memory Bus
256bit
243.8GB/s
Bandwidth
51.20GB/s
Render Config
24
Compute Units
-
-
-
-
1536
Shading Units
-
96
TMUs
24
32
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
768 KB
L2 Cache
-
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
23.20 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
8.000 GPixel/s
69.60 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
12.00 GTexel/s
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-
-
2.227 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
-
556.8 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
274W
TDP
108W
600 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
1x SDI
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
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-
-
Graphics Processor
Tahiti
GPU Name
G70
Tahiti LE GL
GPU Variant
GF-7800-GTX-512-A2
GCN 1.0
Architecture
Curie
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
110 nm
4.313 billion
Transistors
0.302 billion
352 mm²
Die Size
333 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_1)
DirectX
9.0c (9_3)
4.6
OpenGL
2.1
1.2
OpenCL
N/A
1.2
Vulkan
N/A
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-
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5.1
Shader Model
3.0
