AMD FirePro D500 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM FirePro D500 and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 950 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 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (243.8GB/s vs 105.8GB/s)
768 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 7 months late
Boost Clock1188MHz
Lower TDP (90W vs 274W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FirePro D500
+22%
2.227 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 950
1.825 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jan 2014
Release Date
Aug 2015
FirePro
Generation
GeForce 900
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1024 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1188 MHz
1270 MHz
Memory Clock
1653 MHz
Memory
3GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
384bit
Memory Bus
128bit
243.8GB/s
Bandwidth
105.8GB/s
Render Config
24
Compute Units
-
-
-
-
1536
Shading Units
768
96
TMUs
48
32
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
768 KB
L2 Cache
1024 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
23.20 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
38.02 GPixel/s
69.60 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
57.02 GTexel/s
-
-
-
2.227 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1.825 TFLOPS
556.8 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
57.02 GFLOPS
Board Design
274W
TDP
90W
600 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
1x SDI
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
-
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
Tahiti
GPU Name
GM206
Tahiti LE GL
GPU Variant
GM206-250-A1
GCN 1.0
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
28 nm
4.313 billion
Transistors
2.94 billion
352 mm²
Die Size
228 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_1)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
1.2
OpenCL
3.0
1.2
Vulkan
1.3
-
CUDA
5.2
5.1
Shader Model
6.4
