AMD FirePro D500 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Core 216

VS

AMD FirePro D500

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Core 216

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM FirePro D500 and 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 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 4 months late

More VRAM (3GB vs 896GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (243.8GB/s vs 111.9GB/s)

1320 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 's Advantages

Lower TDP (182W vs 274W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro D500 +315%

2.227 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260 Core 216

0.536 TFLOPS

FirePro D500

VS

GeForce GTX 260 Core 216

Graphics Card

Jan 2014

Release Date

Sep 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

27

1536

Shading Units

216

96

TMUs

72

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

41.47 GTexel/s

-

2.227 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

536.5 GFLOPS

556.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

67.07 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

G200-103-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

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