AMD FirePro D500 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 490

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM FirePro D500 and 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 490 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro D500 's Advantages

More VRAM (3GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (243.8GB/s vs 164.0GB/s)

1056 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (274W vs 365W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro D500 +90%

2.227 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 490

1.166 TFLOPS

FirePro D500

VS

GeForce GTX 490

Graphics Card

Jan 2014

Release Date

Unknown

FirePro

Generation

GeForce 400

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1270 MHz

Memory Clock

854 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

1536MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

384bit

243.8GB/s

Bandwidth

164.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

15

24

Compute Units

-

1536

Shading Units

480

96

TMUs

60

32

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

23.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

18.24 GPixel/s

69.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

36.48 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.227 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1166 GFLOPS

556.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

145.8 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

GF100

Tahiti LE GL

GPU Variant

GF100-375-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

Board Design

274W

TDP

365W

600 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2 1x SDI

Outputs

3x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort

-

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

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

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