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AMD FirePro D500 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 130 Mac Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM FirePro D500 and 512MB VRAM GeForce GT 130 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 1 months late
More VRAM (3GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (243.8GB/s vs 38.02GB/s)
1488 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce GT 130 Mac Edition 's Advantages
Lower TDP (75W vs 274W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)
FirePro D500 +1446%
2.227 TFLOPS
GeForce GT 130 Mac Edition
0.144 TFLOPS

Graphics Card

Jan 2014
Release Date
Dec 2008
FirePro
Generation
GeForce 100
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-
-
-
-
-
-
1270 MHz
Memory Clock
792 MHz

Memory

3GB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
384bit
Memory Bus
192bit
243.8GB/s
Bandwidth
38.02GB/s

Render Config

24
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
6
1536
Shading Units
48
96
TMUs
24
32
ROPs
12
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
768 KB
L2 Cache
48 KB
-
-
-

Theoretical Performance

23.20 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
7.200 GPixel/s
69.60 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
14.40 GTexel/s
-
-
-
2.227 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
144.0 GFLOPS
556.8 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-

Board Design

274W
TDP
75W
600 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2 1x SDI
Outputs
2x DVI 1x S-Video
-
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Tahiti
GPU Name
G94B
Tahiti LE GL
GPU Variant
-
GCN 1.0
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
55 nm
4.313 billion
Transistors
0.505 billion
352 mm²
Die Size
196 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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