AMD FirePro D500 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM FirePro D500 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 280 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 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (243.8GB/s vs 141.7GB/s)
1296 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 's Advantages
Lower TDP (236W vs 274W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FirePro D500
+258%
2.227 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 280
0.622 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
1107 MHz
Memory
3GB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
384bit
Memory Bus
512bit
243.8GB/s
Bandwidth
141.7GB/s
Render Config
24
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
30
1536
Shading Units
240
96
TMUs
80
32
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
768 KB
L2 Cache
256 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
23.20 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
19.26 GPixel/s
69.60 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
48.16 GTexel/s
-
-
-
2.227 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
622.1 GFLOPS
556.8 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
77.76 GFLOPS
Board Design
274W
TDP
236W
600 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
1x SDI
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
-
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
Tahiti
GPU Name
GT200
Tahiti LE GL
GPU Variant
G200-300-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
