AMD FirePro D500 vs AMD Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition

VS

AMD FirePro D500

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

FirePro D500

VS

Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition

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

-

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

Vulkan

1.2

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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