AMD FirePro D500 vs AMD Radeon HD 6850 X2
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM FirePro D500 and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6850 X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD FirePro D500 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 4 months late
More VRAM (3GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (243.8GB/s vs 134.4GB/s)
576 additional rendering cores
AMD Radeon HD 6850 X2 's Advantages
Lower TDP (254W vs 274W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FirePro D500
+44%
2.227 TFLOPS
Radeon HD 6850 X2
1.536 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jan 2014
Release Date
Sep 2011
FirePro
Generation
Northern Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
1270 MHz
Memory Clock
1050 MHz
Memory
3GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
384bit
Memory Bus
256bit
243.8GB/s
Bandwidth
134.4GB/s
Render Config
24
Compute Units
12
-
-
-
1536
Shading Units
960
96
TMUs
48
32
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
768 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
23.20 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
25.60 GPixel/s
69.60 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
38.40 GTexel/s
-
-
-
2.227 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1.536 TFLOPS
556.8 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
274W
TDP
254W
600 W
Suggested PSU
600 W
6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
1x SDI
Outputs
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.3a
1x DisplayPort 1.1
-
Power Connectors
2x 8-pin
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
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
-
-
-
5.1
Shader Model
5.0
