AMD FirePro D500 vs AMD Radeon Pro Duo Polaris
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM FirePro D500 and 16GB VRAM Radeon Pro Duo Polaris to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD FirePro D500 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (243.8GB/s vs 224.0GB/s)
AMD Radeon Pro Duo Polaris 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 3 months late
More VRAM (16GB vs 3GB)
768 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (250W vs 274W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FirePro D500
2.227 TFLOPS
Radeon Pro Duo Polaris
+157%
5.728 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jan 2014
Release Date
Apr 2017
FirePro
Generation
Radeon Pro GCN
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
1270 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
Memory
3GB
Memory Size
16GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
384bit
Memory Bus
256bit
243.8GB/s
Bandwidth
224.0GB/s
Render Config
24
Compute Units
36
-
-
-
1536
Shading Units
2304
96
TMUs
144
32
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
768 KB
L2 Cache
2 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
23.20 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
39.78 GPixel/s
69.60 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
179.0 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
5.728 TFLOPS
2.227 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
5.728 TFLOPS
556.8 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
358.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
274W
TDP
250W
600 W
Suggested PSU
600 W
6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
1x SDI
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.0b
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
-
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
Tahiti
GPU Name
Ellesmere
Tahiti LE GL
GPU Variant
Ellesmere Gemini GL
GCN 1.0
Architecture
GCN 4.0
TSMC
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
28 nm
Process Size
14 nm
4.313 billion
Transistors
5.7 billion
352 mm²
Die Size
232 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_1)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
1.2
OpenCL
2.1
1.2
Vulkan
1.3
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-
-
5.1
Shader Model
6.7
