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AMD FirePro D500 vs AMD Radeon RX 590

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM FirePro D500 and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 590 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 590 's Advantages
Released 4 years and 10 months late
Boost Clock1545MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 243.8GB/s)
768 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (175W vs 274W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)
FirePro D500
2.227 TFLOPS
Radeon RX 590 +219%
7.119 TFLOPS

Graphics Card

Jan 2014
Release Date
Nov 2018
FirePro
Generation
Polaris
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-
Base Clock
1469 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1545 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

24
Compute Units
36
-
-
-
1536
Shading Units
2304
96
TMUs
144
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
49.44 GPixel/s
69.60 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
222.5 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
7.119 TFLOPS
2.227 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
7.119 TFLOPS
556.8 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
445.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

274W
TDP
175W
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 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Tahiti
GPU Name
Polaris 30
Tahiti LE GL
GPU Variant
Polaris 30 XT (215-0922006)
GCN 1.0
Architecture
GCN 4.0
TSMC
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
28 nm
Process Size
12 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
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