AMD FirePro D500 vs AMD Radeon R9 270 1024SP

VS

AMD FirePro D500

AMD Radeon R9 270 1024SP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM FirePro D500 and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 270 1024SP 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 153.6GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R9 270 1024SP 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock925MHz

Lower TDP (150W vs 274W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro D500 +17%

2.227 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 270 1024SP

1.894 TFLOPS

FirePro D500

VS

Radeon R9 270 1024SP

Graphics Card

Jan 2014

Release Date

Mar 2015

FirePro

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

900 MHz

-

Boost Clock

925 MHz

1270 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

243.8GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

24

Compute Units

16

-

1536

Shading Units

1024

96

TMUs

64

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

59.20 GTexel/s

-

2.227 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.894 TFLOPS

556.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

118.4 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

Pitcairn

Tahiti LE GL

GPU Variant

Pitcairn PRO (215-0828062)

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

Vulkan

1.2

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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