AMD FirePro D500 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

VS

AMD FirePro D500

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM FirePro D500 and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 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 980 's Advantages

Released 8 months late

Boost Clock1216MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 3GB)

512 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (165W vs 274W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro D500

2.227 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980 +123%

4.981 TFLOPS

FirePro D500

VS

GeForce GTX 980

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

1127 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1216 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

2048

96

TMUs

128

32

ROPs

64

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

23.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

77.82 GPixel/s

69.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

155.6 GTexel/s

-

2.227 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.981 TFLOPS

556.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

155.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

274W

TDP

165W

600 W

Suggested PSU

450 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

GM204-400-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

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