AMD FirePro D500 vs AMD Radeon R5 230
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM FirePro D500 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon R5 230 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD FirePro D500 's Advantages
More VRAM (3GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (243.8GB/s vs 10.67GB/s)
1376 additional rendering cores
AMD Radeon R5 230 's Advantages
Lower TDP (19W vs 274W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FirePro D500
+1013%
2.227 TFLOPS
Radeon R5 230
0.2 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jan 2014
Release Date
Apr 2014
FirePro
Generation
Volcanic Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
1270 MHz
Memory Clock
667 MHz
Memory
3GB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
DDR3
384bit
Memory Bus
64bit
243.8GB/s
Bandwidth
10.67GB/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
2.500 GPixel/s
69.60 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
5.000 GTexel/s
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-
-
2.227 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
200.0 GFLOPS
556.8 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
274W
TDP
19W
600 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
1x SDI
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.3a
1x VGA
-
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Tahiti
GPU Name
Caicos
Tahiti LE GL
GPU Variant
Caicos PRO
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
-
-
-
5.1
Shader Model
5.0
