AMD FirePro D500 vs AMD Radeon HD 7470 OEM
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM FirePro D500 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 7470 OEM 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 late
More VRAM (3GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (243.8GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)
1376 additional rendering cores
AMD Radeon HD 7470 OEM 's Advantages
Lower TDP (27W vs 274W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FirePro D500
+827%
2.227 TFLOPS
Radeon HD 7470 OEM
0.24 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jan 2014
Release Date
Jan 2012
FirePro
Generation
Southern Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
1270 MHz
Memory Clock
900 MHz
Memory
3GB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
384bit
Memory Bus
64bit
243.8GB/s
Bandwidth
28.80GB/s
Render Config
24
Compute Units
2
-
-
-
1536
Shading Units
160
96
TMUs
8
32
ROPs
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
768 KB
L2 Cache
128 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
23.20 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
3.000 GPixel/s
69.60 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
6.000 GTexel/s
-
-
-
2.227 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
240.0 GFLOPS
556.8 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
274W
TDP
27W
600 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
1x SDI
Outputs
1x DVI
1x DisplayPort 1.1
-
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Tahiti
GPU Name
Caicos
Tahiti LE GL
GPU Variant
Khalidster
GCN 1.0
Architecture
TeraScale 2
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
40 nm
4.313 billion
Transistors
0.37 billion
352 mm²
Die Size
67 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
