AMD FirePro D500 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM FirePro D500 and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD FirePro D500 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (243.8GB/s vs 224.4GB/s)
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages
Released 8 months late
Boost Clock1178MHz
More VRAM (4GB vs 3GB)
128 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (148W vs 274W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FirePro D500
2.227 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 970
+76%
3.92 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jan 2014
Release Date
Sep 2014
FirePro
Generation
GeForce 900
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1050 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1178 MHz
1270 MHz
Memory Clock
1753 MHz
Memory
3GB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
384bit
Memory Bus
256bit
243.8GB/s
Bandwidth
224.4GB/s
Render Config
24
Compute Units
-
-
-
-
1536
Shading Units
1664
96
TMUs
104
32
ROPs
56
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
768 KB
L2 Cache
2 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
23.20 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
65.97 GPixel/s
69.60 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
122.5 GTexel/s
-
-
-
2.227 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
3.920 TFLOPS
556.8 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
122.5 GFLOPS
Board Design
274W
TDP
148W
600 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
1x SDI
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
-
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
Tahiti
GPU Name
GM204
Tahiti LE GL
GPU Variant
GM204-200-A1
GCN 1.0
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
28 nm
4.313 billion
Transistors
5.2 billion
352 mm²
Die Size
398 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
