AMD FirePro D500 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GS
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM FirePro D500 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9500 GS 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 6 months late
More VRAM (3GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (243.8GB/s vs 16.13GB/s)
1504 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GS 's Advantages
Lower TDP (40W vs 274W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FirePro D500
+2430%
2.227 TFLOPS
GeForce 9500 GS
0.088 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jan 2014
Release Date
Jul 2008
FirePro
Generation
GeForce 9
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
1270 MHz
Memory Clock
504 MHz
Memory
3GB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
DDR2
384bit
Memory Bus
128bit
243.8GB/s
Bandwidth
16.13GB/s
Render Config
24
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
4
1536
Shading Units
32
96
TMUs
16
32
ROPs
8
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
768 KB
L2 Cache
32 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
23.20 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
4.400 GPixel/s
69.60 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
8.800 GTexel/s
-
-
-
2.227 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
88.00 GFLOPS
556.8 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
274W
TDP
40W
600 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
1x SDI
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
-
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Tahiti
GPU Name
G96
Tahiti LE GL
GPU Variant
G96-259-A1
GCN 1.0
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
UMC
28 nm
Process Size
65 nm
4.313 billion
Transistors
0.314 billion
352 mm²
Die Size
144 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
