AMD FirePro D500 vs AMD Radeon R9 270
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM FirePro D500 and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 270 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 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (243.8GB/s vs 179.2GB/s)
256 additional rendering cores
AMD Radeon R9 270 's Advantages
Boost Clock925MHz
Lower TDP (150W vs 274W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FirePro D500
2.227 TFLOPS
Radeon R9 270
+6%
2.368 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jan 2014
Release Date
Nov 2013
FirePro
Generation
Volcanic Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
900 MHz
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Boost Clock
925 MHz
1270 MHz
Memory Clock
1400 MHz
Memory
3GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
384bit
Memory Bus
256bit
243.8GB/s
Bandwidth
179.2GB/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
29.60 GPixel/s
69.60 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
74.00 GTexel/s
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-
-
2.227 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.368 TFLOPS
556.8 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
148.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
274W
TDP
150W
600 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
1x SDI
Outputs
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
-
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
Tahiti
GPU Name
Curacao
Tahiti LE GL
GPU Variant
Curacao PRO
(215-0848000)
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
1.2
Vulkan
1.2
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-
-
5.1
Shader Model
5.1
