AMD FirePro D500 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT Mac Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM FirePro D500 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9500 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 3 years and 8 months late
More VRAM (3GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (243.8GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)
1504 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT Mac Edition 's Advantages
Lower TDP (50W vs 274W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FirePro D500
+2374%
2.227 TFLOPS
GeForce 9500 GT Mac Edition
0.09 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jan 2014
Release Date
May 2010
FirePro
Generation
GeForce 9
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
1270 MHz
Memory Clock
800 MHz
Memory
3GB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
384bit
Memory Bus
128bit
243.8GB/s
Bandwidth
25.60GB/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)
89.60 GFLOPS
556.8 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
274W
TDP
50W
600 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
1x SDI
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
-
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Tahiti
GPU Name
G96C
Tahiti LE GL
GPU Variant
-
GCN 1.0
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
55 nm
4.313 billion
Transistors
0.314 billion
352 mm²
Die Size
121 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
