AMD FirePro D500 vs AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM FirePro D500 and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 6500 XT 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 143.9GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT 's Advantages

Released 8 years late

Boost Clock2815MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 3GB)

Lower TDP (107W vs 274W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro D500

2.227 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 6500 XT +158%

5.765 TFLOPS

FirePro D500

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Radeon RX 6500 XT

Graphics Card

Jan 2014

Release Date

Jan 2022

FirePro

Generation

Navi II

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x4

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

2310 MHz

-

Boost Clock

2815 MHz

1270 MHz

Memory Clock

2248 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

384bit

Memory Bus

64bit

243.8GB/s

Bandwidth

143.9GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

24

Compute Units

16

1536

Shading Units

1024

96

TMUs

64

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

16

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB per Array

768 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

23.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

90.08 GPixel/s

69.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

180.2 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

11.53 TFLOPS

2.227 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.765 TFLOPS

556.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

360.3 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

Navi 24

Tahiti LE GL

GPU Variant

Navi 24 XT (215-135000006)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

RDNA 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

6 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

5.4 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

107 mm²

Board Design

274W

TDP

107W

600 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2 1x SDI

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

-

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.2

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.6

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