AMD FirePro D500 vs ATI Radeon HD 2950 PRO

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM FirePro D500 and 256MB VRAM Radeon HD 2950 PRO 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 38.40GB/s)

1216 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 2950 PRO 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 274W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro D500 +479%

2.227 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 2950 PRO

0.384 TFLOPS

FirePro D500

VS

Radeon HD 2950 PRO

Graphics Card

Jan 2014

Release Date

Unknown

FirePro

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1270 MHz

Memory Clock

600 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

243.8GB/s

Bandwidth

38.40GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

24

Compute Units

4

1536

Shading Units

320

96

TMUs

16

32

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

768 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

23.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.600 GPixel/s

69.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

9.600 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.227 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

384.0 GFLOPS

556.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

76.80 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

RV670

Tahiti LE GL

GPU Variant

RV670 PRO ES (215-0708001)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

0.666 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

192 mm²

Board Design

274W

TDP

75W

600 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2 1x SDI

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

-

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

1.2

OpenCL

N/A

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

4.1

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