AMD FirePro D500 vs AMD Radeon HD 6870 X2
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM FirePro D500 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6870 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 6 months late
More VRAM (3GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (243.8GB/s vs 134.4GB/s)
416 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (274W vs 300W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FirePro D500
+10%
2.227 TFLOPS
Radeon HD 6870 X2
2.016 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jan 2014
Release Date
Jul 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
1024MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
384bit
Memory Bus
256bit
243.8GB/s
Bandwidth
134.4GB/s
Render Config
24
Compute Units
14
-
-
-
1536
Shading Units
1120
96
TMUs
56
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
28.80 GPixel/s
69.60 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
50.40 GTexel/s
-
-
-
2.227 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.016 TFLOPS
556.8 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
274W
TDP
300W
600 W
Suggested PSU
700 W
6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
1x SDI
Outputs
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.3a
2x mini-DisplayPort 1.1
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-
-
Graphics Processor
Tahiti
GPU Name
Barts
Tahiti LE GL
GPU Variant
Barts XT
(215-0798000)
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
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-
-
5.1
Shader Model
5.0
