AMD FirePro D500 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM FirePro D500 and 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 580 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 1536GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (243.8GB/s vs 192.4GB/s)
1024 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 's Advantages
Lower TDP (244W vs 274W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FirePro D500
+40%
2.227 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 580
1.581 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jan 2014
Release Date
Nov 2010
FirePro
Generation
GeForce 500
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
1270 MHz
Memory Clock
1002 MHz
Memory
3GB
Memory Size
1536MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
384bit
Memory Bus
384bit
243.8GB/s
Bandwidth
192.4GB/s
Render Config
24
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
16
1536
Shading Units
512
96
TMUs
64
32
ROPs
48
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
768 KB
L2 Cache
768 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
23.20 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
24.70 GPixel/s
69.60 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
49.41 GTexel/s
-
-
-
2.227 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1.581 TFLOPS
556.8 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
197.6 GFLOPS
Board Design
274W
TDP
244W
600 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
1x SDI
Outputs
2x DVI
1x mini-HDMI 1.3a
-
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
Tahiti
GPU Name
GF110
Tahiti LE GL
GPU Variant
GF110-375-A1
GCN 1.0
Architecture
Fermi 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
40 nm
4.313 billion
Transistors
3 billion
352 mm²
Die Size
520 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
