AMD FirePro D500 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8800 Ultra
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM FirePro D500 and 768MB VRAM GeForce 8800 Ultra to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD FirePro D500 's Advantages
Released 6 years and 8 months late
More VRAM (3GB vs 768GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (243.8GB/s vs 103.7GB/s)
1408 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce 8800 Ultra 's Advantages
Lower TDP (171W vs 274W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FirePro D500
+475%
2.227 TFLOPS
GeForce 8800 Ultra
0.387 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jan 2014
Release Date
May 2007
FirePro
Generation
GeForce 8
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
1270 MHz
Memory Clock
1080 MHz
Memory
3GB
Memory Size
768MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
384bit
Memory Bus
384bit
243.8GB/s
Bandwidth
103.7GB/s
Render Config
24
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
16
1536
Shading Units
128
96
TMUs
32
32
ROPs
24
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
768 KB
L2 Cache
96 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
23.20 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
14.69 GPixel/s
69.60 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
39.17 GTexel/s
-
-
-
2.227 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
387.1 GFLOPS
556.8 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
274W
TDP
171W
600 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
1x SDI
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
-
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
Tahiti
GPU Name
G80
Tahiti LE GL
GPU Variant
G80-450-A3
GCN 1.0
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
90 nm
4.313 billion
Transistors
0.681 billion
352 mm²
Die Size
484 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_1)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
1.2
OpenCL
1.1 (1.0)
1.2
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
1.0
5.1
Shader Model
4.0
