AMD FirePro D500 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 240

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM FirePro D500 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 240 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro D500 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 2 months late

More VRAM (3GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (243.8GB/s vs 54.40GB/s)

1440 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 240 's Advantages

Lower TDP (69W vs 274W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro D500 +766%

2.227 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 240

0.257 TFLOPS

FirePro D500

VS

GeForce GT 240

Graphics Card

Jan 2014

Release Date

Nov 2009

FirePro

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1270 MHz

Memory Clock

850 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

243.8GB/s

Bandwidth

54.40GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

12

24

Compute Units

-

1536

Shading Units

96

TMUs

32

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

768 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

Theoretical Performance

23.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.400 GPixel/s

69.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

17.60 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.227 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

257.3 GFLOPS

556.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

GT215

Tahiti LE GL

GPU Variant

GT215-450-A2

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

0.727 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

144 mm²

Board Design

274W

TDP

69W

600 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2 1x SDI

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1x VGA

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

11.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.2

5.1

Shader Model

4.1

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