AMD FirePro D500 vs ATI Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition

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AMD FirePro D500 ATI Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM FirePro D500 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 5870 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 3 years and 7 months late

More VRAM (3GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (243.8GB/s vs 153.0GB/s)

ATI Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition 's Advantages

64 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (228W vs 274W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro D500

2.227 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition +22%

2.72 TFLOPS

FirePro D500

VS

Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Jan 2014

Release Date

Jun 2010

FirePro

Generation

Evergreen

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1270 MHz

Memory Clock

1195 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

243.8GB/s

Bandwidth

153.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

24

Compute Units

20

1536

Shading Units

1600

96

TMUs

80

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

768 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

23.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

27.20 GPixel/s

69.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

68.00 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.227 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.720 TFLOPS

556.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

544.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

Cypress

Tahiti LE GL

GPU Variant

Cypress XT (215-0735033)

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

Board Design

274W

TDP

228W

600 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2 1x SDI

Outputs

1x DVI 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

-

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.0

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