AMD FirePro D500 vs AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition

VS

AMD FirePro D500

AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM FirePro D500 and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro D500 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 10 months late

More VRAM (3GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (243.8GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (175W vs 274W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro D500

2.227 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition +14%

2.56 TFLOPS

FirePro D500

VS

Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition

Graphics Card

Jan 2014

Release Date

Mar 2012

FirePro

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1270 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

243.8GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

24

Compute Units

20

-

1536

Shading Units

1280

96

TMUs

80

32

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

768 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

23.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

32.00 GPixel/s

69.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

80.00 GTexel/s

-

2.227 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.560 TFLOPS

556.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

160.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

274W

TDP

175W

600 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2 1x SDI

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

-

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

Pitcairn

Tahiti LE GL

GPU Variant

Pitcairn XT (215-0828047)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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