AMD FirePro D500 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM FirePro D500 and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 680 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro D500 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 10 months late

More VRAM (3GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (243.8GB/s vs 192.3GB/s)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 's Advantages

Boost Clock1058MHz

Lower TDP (195W vs 274W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro D500

2.227 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 680 +45%

3.25 TFLOPS

FirePro D500

VS

GeForce GTX 680

Graphics Card

Jan 2014

Release Date

Mar 2012

FirePro

Generation

GeForce 600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1006 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1058 MHz

1270 MHz

Memory Clock

1502 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

243.8GB/s

Bandwidth

192.3GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

24

Compute Units

-

1536

Shading Units

1536

96

TMUs

128

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

768 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

23.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

33.86 GPixel/s

69.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

135.4 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.227 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.250 TFLOPS

556.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

135.4 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

GK104

Tahiti LE GL

GPU Variant

GK104-400-A2

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Kepler

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

3.54 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

294 mm²

Board Design

274W

TDP

195W

600 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2 1x SDI

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

-

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.1

-

CUDA

3.0

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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