AMD FirePro D500 vs AMD Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM FirePro D500 and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD FirePro D500 's Advantages
Released 10 months late
Larger VRAM bandwidth (243.8GB/s vs 240.0GB/s)
AMD Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition 's Advantages
256 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (200W vs 274W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FirePro D500
2.227 TFLOPS
Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition
+28%
2.867 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jan 2014
Release Date
Mar 2013
FirePro
Generation
Southern Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
1270 MHz
Memory Clock
1250 MHz
Memory
3GB
Memory Size
3GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
384bit
Memory Bus
384bit
243.8GB/s
Bandwidth
240.0GB/s
Render Config
24
Compute Units
28
-
-
-
1536
Shading Units
1792
96
TMUs
112
32
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
768 KB
L2 Cache
768 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
23.20 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
25.60 GPixel/s
69.60 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
89.60 GTexel/s
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-
-
2.227 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.867 TFLOPS
556.8 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
716.8 GFLOPS
Board Design
274W
TDP
200W
600 W
Suggested PSU
550 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
Tahiti
Tahiti LE GL
GPU Variant
Tahiti PRO
(215-0821056)
GCN 1.0
Architecture
GCN 1.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
28 nm
4.313 billion
Transistors
4.313 billion
352 mm²
Die Size
352 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_1)
DirectX
12 (11_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
1.2
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
Vulkan
1.2
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-
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5.1
Shader Model
5.1
