AMD FirePro D500 vs ATI Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition

VS

AMD FirePro D500

ATI Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM FirePro D500 and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 4870 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 late

More VRAM (3GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (243.8GB/s vs 108.8GB/s)

736 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (150W vs 274W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro D500 +85%

2.227 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition

1.2 TFLOPS

FirePro D500

VS

Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Jan 2014

Release Date

Jan 2009

FirePro

Generation

Radeon R700

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1270 MHz

Memory Clock

850 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

243.8GB/s

Bandwidth

108.8GB/s

Render Config

24

Compute Units

10

-

1536

Shading Units

800

96

TMUs

40

32

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

768 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

23.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.00 GPixel/s

69.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

30.00 GTexel/s

-

2.227 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1200 GFLOPS

556.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

240.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

274W

TDP

150W

600 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2 1x SDI

Outputs

1x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort 1.0

-

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

RV770

Tahiti LE GL

GPU Variant

RV770 XT Mac (215-0669080)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

0.956 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

256 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

5.1

Shader Model

4.1

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