AMD FirePro D500 vs AMD Radeon HD 6850

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM FirePro D500 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6850 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 3 months late

More VRAM (3GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (243.8GB/s vs 128.0GB/s)

576 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 6850 's Advantages

Lower TDP (127W vs 274W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro D500 +49%

2.227 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6850

1.488 TFLOPS

FirePro D500

VS

Radeon HD 6850

Graphics Card

Jan 2014

Release Date

Oct 2010

FirePro

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

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

-

SM Count

-

24

Compute Units

12

1536

Shading Units

960

96

TMUs

48

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

24.80 GPixel/s

69.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

37.20 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.227 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1488 GFLOPS

556.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

Barts

Tahiti LE GL

GPU Variant

Barts PRO (215-0798006)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

1.7 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

255 mm²

Board Design

274W

TDP

127W

600 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2 1x SDI

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

-

Power Connectors

1x 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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