AMD FirePro D500 vs ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT Mac Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM FirePro D500 and 256MB VRAM Radeon HD 2600 XT Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD FirePro D500 's Advantages
Released 5 years and 11 months late
More VRAM (3GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (243.8GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)
1416 additional rendering cores
ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT Mac Edition 's Advantages
Lower TDP (45W vs 274W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FirePro D500
+1225%
2.227 TFLOPS
Radeon HD 2600 XT Mac Edition
0.168 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jan 2014
Release Date
Feb 2008
FirePro
Generation
Radeon R600
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
1270 MHz
Memory Clock
800 MHz
Memory
3GB
Memory Size
256MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
384bit
Memory Bus
128bit
243.8GB/s
Bandwidth
25.60GB/s
Render Config
24
Compute Units
3
-
-
-
1536
Shading Units
120
96
TMUs
8
32
ROPs
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
768 KB
L2 Cache
64 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
23.20 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
2.800 GPixel/s
69.60 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
5.600 GTexel/s
-
-
-
2.227 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
168.0 GFLOPS
556.8 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
274W
TDP
45W
600 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
1x SDI
Outputs
2x DVI
-
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Tahiti
GPU Name
RV630
Tahiti LE GL
GPU Variant
-
GCN 1.0
Architecture
TeraScale
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
65 nm
4.313 billion
Transistors
0.39 billion
352 mm²
Die Size
153 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_1)
DirectX
10.0 (10_0)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
1.2
OpenCL
N/A
1.2
Vulkan
N/A
-
-
-
5.1
Shader Model
4.0
