AMD FirePro D500 vs ATI Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM FirePro D500 and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 3870 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 7 months late
More VRAM (3GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (243.8GB/s vs 72.06GB/s)
1216 additional rendering cores
ATI Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition 's Advantages
Lower TDP (106W vs 274W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FirePro D500
+348%
2.227 TFLOPS
Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition
0.497 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jan 2014
Release Date
Jun 2008
FirePro
Generation
Radeon R600
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
1270 MHz
Memory Clock
1126 MHz
Memory
3GB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR4
384bit
Memory Bus
256bit
243.8GB/s
Bandwidth
72.06GB/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
12.43 GPixel/s
69.60 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
12.43 GTexel/s
-
-
-
2.227 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
497.3 GFLOPS
556.8 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
99.46 GFLOPS
Board Design
274W
TDP
106W
600 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
1x SDI
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
-
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
Tahiti
GPU Name
RV670
Tahiti LE GL
GPU Variant
RV670 XT
(215-0708005)
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
