AMD FirePro D500 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM FirePro D500 and 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 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 7 months late
More VRAM (3GB vs 896GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (243.8GB/s vs 111.9GB/s)
1344 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 's Advantages
Lower TDP (182W vs 274W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FirePro D500
+366%
2.227 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 260
0.477 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jan 2014
Release Date
Jun 2008
FirePro
Generation
GeForce 200
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
1270 MHz
Memory Clock
999 MHz
Memory
3GB
Memory Size
896MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
384bit
Memory Bus
448bit
243.8GB/s
Bandwidth
111.9GB/s
Render Config
24
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
24
1536
Shading Units
192
96
TMUs
64
32
ROPs
28
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
768 KB
L2 Cache
224 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
23.20 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
16.13 GPixel/s
69.60 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
36.86 GTexel/s
-
-
-
2.227 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
476.9 GFLOPS
556.8 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
59.62 GFLOPS
Board Design
274W
TDP
182W
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
GT200
Tahiti LE GL
GPU Variant
G200-100-A2
GCN 1.0
Architecture
Tesla 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
65 nm
4.313 billion
Transistors
1.4 billion
352 mm²
Die Size
576 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
1.3
5.1
Shader Model
4.0
