AMD FirePro D500 vs ATI Radeon HD 5850
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM FirePro D500 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 5850 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD FirePro D500 's Advantages
Released 4 years and 4 months late
More VRAM (3GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (243.8GB/s vs 128.0GB/s)
96 additional rendering cores
ATI Radeon HD 5850 's Advantages
Lower TDP (151W vs 274W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FirePro D500
+6%
2.227 TFLOPS
Radeon HD 5850
2.088 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jan 2014
Release Date
Sep 2009
FirePro
Generation
Evergreen
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
1270 MHz
Memory Clock
1000 MHz
Memory
3GB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
384bit
Memory Bus
256bit
243.8GB/s
Bandwidth
128.0GB/s
Render Config
24
Compute Units
18
-
-
-
1536
Shading Units
1440
96
TMUs
72
32
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
768 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
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-
-
Theoretical Performance
23.20 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
23.20 GPixel/s
69.60 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
52.20 GTexel/s
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-
-
2.227 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.088 TFLOPS
556.8 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
417.6 GFLOPS
Board Design
274W
TDP
151W
600 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
1x SDI
Outputs
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.3a
1x DisplayPort 1.1
-
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
Tahiti
GPU Name
Cypress
Tahiti LE GL
GPU Variant
Cypress PRO
(215-0735043)
GCN 1.0
Architecture
TeraScale 2
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
40 nm
4.313 billion
Transistors
2.154 billion
352 mm²
Die Size
334 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_1)
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.4
1.2
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
Vulkan
N/A
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-
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5.1
Shader Model
5.0
