AMD FirePro D500 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 SE v2
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM FirePro D500 and 768MB VRAM GeForce GTX 460 SE v2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD FirePro D500 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 2 months late
More VRAM (3GB vs 768GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (243.8GB/s vs 81.60GB/s)
1248 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 SE v2 's Advantages
Lower TDP (150W vs 274W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FirePro D500
+197%
2.227 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 460 SE v2
0.749 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jan 2014
Release Date
Nov 2010
FirePro
Generation
GeForce 400
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
1270 MHz
Memory Clock
850 MHz
Memory
3GB
Memory Size
768MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
384bit
Memory Bus
192bit
243.8GB/s
Bandwidth
81.60GB/s
Render Config
24
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
6
1536
Shading Units
288
96
TMUs
48
32
ROPs
24
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
768 KB
L2 Cache
384 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
23.20 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
7.800 GPixel/s
69.60 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
31.20 GTexel/s
-
-
-
2.227 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
748.8 GFLOPS
556.8 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
62.40 GFLOPS
Board Design
274W
TDP
150W
600 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
1x SDI
Outputs
2x DVI
1x mini-HDMI 1.3a
-
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
Tahiti
GPU Name
GF114
Tahiti LE GL
GPU Variant
GF114-400-A1
GCN 1.0
Architecture
Fermi 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
40 nm
4.313 billion
Transistors
1.95 billion
352 mm²
Die Size
332 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_1)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
1.2
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
2.1
5.1
Shader Model
5.1
