AMD FirePro D500 vs ATI Radeon HD 3850 AGP

VS

AMD FirePro D500

ATI Radeon HD 3850 AGP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM FirePro D500 and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 3850 AGP to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro D500 's Advantages

Released 6 years late

More VRAM (3GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (243.8GB/s vs 52.99GB/s)

1216 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 3850 AGP 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 274W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro D500 +420%

2.227 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 3850 AGP

0.428 TFLOPS

FirePro D500

VS

Radeon HD 3850 AGP

Graphics Card

Jan 2014

Release Date

Jan 2008

FirePro

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

AGP 8x

Clock Speeds

-

1270 MHz

Memory Clock

828 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

243.8GB/s

Bandwidth

52.99GB/s

Render Config

24

Compute Units

4

-

1536

Shading Units

320

96

TMUs

16

32

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

768 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

23.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.69 GPixel/s

69.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

10.69 GTexel/s

-

2.227 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

427.5 GFLOPS

556.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

85.50 GFLOPS

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 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

RV670

Tahiti LE GL

GPU Variant

RV670 PRO (215-0708003)

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

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

-

5.1

Shader Model

4.1

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