AMD FirePro D500 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM FirePro D500 and 1280MB VRAM GeForce GTX 470 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 10 months late
More VRAM (3GB vs 1280GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (243.8GB/s vs 133.9GB/s)
1088 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 's Advantages
Lower TDP (215W vs 274W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FirePro D500
+104%
2.227 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 470
1.089 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jan 2014
Release Date
Mar 2010
FirePro
Generation
GeForce 400
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
1270 MHz
Memory Clock
837 MHz
Memory
3GB
Memory Size
1280MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
384bit
Memory Bus
320bit
243.8GB/s
Bandwidth
133.9GB/s
Render Config
24
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
14
1536
Shading Units
448
96
TMUs
56
32
ROPs
40
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
768 KB
L2 Cache
640 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
23.20 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
17.02 GPixel/s
69.60 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
34.05 GTexel/s
-
-
-
2.227 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1089 GFLOPS
556.8 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
136.1 GFLOPS
Board Design
274W
TDP
215W
600 W
Suggested PSU
550 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
GF100
Tahiti LE GL
GPU Variant
GF100-275-A3
GCN 1.0
Architecture
Fermi
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
40 nm
4.313 billion
Transistors
3.1 billion
352 mm²
Die Size
529 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
2.0
5.1
Shader Model
5.1
