AMD FirePro D500 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285 Mac Edition

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AMD FirePro D500 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285 Mac Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM FirePro D500 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 285 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 late

More VRAM (3GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (243.8GB/s vs 159.0GB/s)

1296 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285 Mac Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (204W vs 274W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro D500 +214%

2.227 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 285 Mac Edition

0.708 TFLOPS

FirePro D500

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GeForce GTX 285 Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Jan 2014

Release Date

Jan 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

1242 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

384bit

Memory Bus

512bit

243.8GB/s

Bandwidth

159.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

30

24

Compute Units

-

1536

Shading Units

240

96

TMUs

80

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

768 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

23.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

20.74 GPixel/s

69.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

51.84 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.227 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

708.5 GFLOPS

556.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

88.56 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

GT200B

Tahiti LE GL

GPU Variant

G200-350-B3

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

1.4 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

470 mm²

Board Design

274W

TDP

204W

600 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2 1x SDI

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

-

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

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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