AMD FirePro D500 vs ATI Radeon X1700 SE

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM FirePro D500 and 512MB VRAM Radeon X1700 SE to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro D500 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 2 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (243.8GB/s vs 16.00GB/s)

1536 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon X1700 SE 's Advantages

Lower TDP (50W vs 274W)

Score

FirePro D500

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Radeon X1700 SE

Graphics Card

Jan 2014

Release Date

Nov 2007

FirePro

Generation

Radeon R500 PCIe

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1270 MHz

Memory Clock

500 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

243.8GB/s

Bandwidth

16.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

24

Compute Units

-

1536

Shading Units

-

96

TMUs

8

32

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

768 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

23.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.000 GPixel/s

69.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

4.000 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.227 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

556.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

RV560

Tahiti LE GL

GPU Variant

RV560 SE

GCN 1.0

Architecture

R500

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

80 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

0.33 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

230 mm²

Board Design

274W

TDP

50W

600 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2 1x SDI

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

-

Power Connectors

None

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

-

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

3.0

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