AMD FirePro D500 vs ATI Radeon X1550 PCI
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM FirePro D500 and 256MB VRAM Radeon X1550 PCI to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD FirePro D500 's Advantages
Released 7 years late
More VRAM (3GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (243.8GB/s vs 4.256GB/s)
1536 additional rendering cores
ATI Radeon X1550 PCI 's Advantages
Lower TDP (27W vs 274W)
Score
Graphics Card
Jan 2014
Release Date
Jan 2007
FirePro
Generation
Radeon R500 PCIe
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
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1270 MHz
Memory Clock
266 MHz
Memory
3GB
Memory Size
256MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
DDR2
384bit
Memory Bus
64bit
243.8GB/s
Bandwidth
4.256GB/s
Render Config
24
Compute Units
-
-
-
-
1536
Shading Units
-
96
TMUs
4
32
ROPs
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
768 KB
L2 Cache
-
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
23.20 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
1.808 GPixel/s
69.60 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
1.808 GTexel/s
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-
-
2.227 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
-
556.8 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
274W
TDP
27W
600 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
1x SDI
Outputs
1x DVI
1x VGA
1x S-Video
-
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Tahiti
GPU Name
RV516
Tahiti LE GL
GPU Variant
-
GCN 1.0
Architecture
R500
TSMC
Foundry
UMC
28 nm
Process Size
80 nm
4.313 billion
Transistors
0.107 billion
352 mm²
Die Size
100 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_1)
DirectX
9.0c (9_3)
4.6
OpenGL
2.1
1.2
OpenCL
N/A
1.2
Vulkan
N/A
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-
-
5.1
Shader Model
3.0
