AMD FirePro D500 vs AMD Radeon RX 480

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM FirePro D500 and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 480 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 480 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1266MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 243.8GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (150W vs 274W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro D500

2.227 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 480 +161%

5.834 TFLOPS

FirePro D500

VS

Radeon RX 480

Graphics Card

Jan 2014

Release Date

Jun 2016

FirePro

Generation

Arctic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1120 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1266 MHz

1270 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

243.8GB/s

Bandwidth

256.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

24

Compute Units

36

1536

Shading Units

2304

96

TMUs

144

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

768 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

23.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

40.51 GPixel/s

69.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

182.3 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

5.834 TFLOPS

2.227 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.834 TFLOPS

556.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

364.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

Ellesmere

Tahiti LE GL

GPU Variant

Polaris 10 XT (215-0876184)

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

Board Design

274W

TDP

150W

600 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2 1x SDI

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

-

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.1

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.4

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