AMD FirePro D500 vs AMD Radeon R9 290X2
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM FirePro D500 and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD FirePro D500 's Advantages
Lower TDP (274W vs 580W)
AMD Radeon R9 290X2 's Advantages
More VRAM (4GB vs 3GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (345.6GB/s vs 243.8GB/s)
1280 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FirePro D500
2.227 TFLOPS
Radeon R9 290X2
+152%
5.632 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jan 2014
Release Date
Jun 2014
FirePro
Generation
Volcanic Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
1270 MHz
Memory Clock
1350 MHz
Memory
3GB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
384bit
Memory Bus
512bit
243.8GB/s
Bandwidth
345.6GB/s
Render Config
24
Compute Units
44
-
-
-
1536
Shading Units
2816
96
TMUs
176
32
ROPs
64
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
768 KB
L2 Cache
1024 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
23.20 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
64.00 GPixel/s
69.60 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
176.0 GTexel/s
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-
-
2.227 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
5.632 TFLOPS
556.8 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
704.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
274W
TDP
580W
600 W
Suggested PSU
950 W
6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
1x SDI
Outputs
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
-
Power Connectors
4x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
Tahiti
GPU Name
Hawaii
Tahiti LE GL
GPU Variant
Hawaii XT
(215-0852000)
GCN 1.0
Architecture
GCN 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
28 nm
4.313 billion
Transistors
6.2 billion
352 mm²
Die Size
438 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_1)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
1.2
OpenCL
2.0
1.2
Vulkan
1.2
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-
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5.1
Shader Model
6.3
