AMD FirePro D500 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition

VS

AMD FirePro D500

NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM FirePro D500 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro D500 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 11 months late

More VRAM (3GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (243.8GB/s vs 57.60GB/s)

1424 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (125W vs 274W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro D500 +562%

2.227 TFLOPS

GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition

0.336 TFLOPS

FirePro D500

VS

GeForce 8800 GT Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Jan 2014

Release Date

Feb 2008

FirePro

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1270 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

243.8GB/s

Bandwidth

57.60GB/s

Render Config

24

Compute Units

-

SM Count

14

1536

Shading Units

112

96

TMUs

56

32

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

768 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

23.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.600 GPixel/s

69.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

33.60 GTexel/s

-

2.227 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

336.0 GFLOPS

556.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

274W

TDP

125W

600 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2 1x SDI

Outputs

2x DVI

-

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

G92

Tahiti LE GL

GPU Variant

G92-270-A2

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

65 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

0.754 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

324 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

5.1

Shader Model

4.0

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