AMD FirePro D500 vs AMD Radeon RX 470
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM FirePro D500 and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 470 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 211.2GB/s)
AMD Radeon RX 470 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 7 months late
Boost Clock1206MHz
More VRAM (4GB vs 3GB)
512 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (120W vs 274W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FirePro D500
2.227 TFLOPS
Radeon RX 470
+121%
4.94 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jan 2014
Release Date
Aug 2016
FirePro
Generation
Arctic Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
926 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1206 MHz
1270 MHz
Memory Clock
1650 MHz
Memory
3GB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
384bit
Memory Bus
256bit
243.8GB/s
Bandwidth
211.2GB/s
Render Config
24
Compute Units
32
-
-
-
1536
Shading Units
2048
96
TMUs
128
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
38.59 GPixel/s
69.60 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
154.4 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
4.940 TFLOPS
2.227 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
4.940 TFLOPS
556.8 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
308.7 GFLOPS
Board Design
274W
TDP
120W
600 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
1x SDI
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.0b
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
-
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
Tahiti
GPU Name
Ellesmere
Tahiti LE GL
GPU Variant
Polaris 10 PRO
(215-0876204)
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
1.2
-
-
-
5.1
Shader Model
6.4
