AMD FirePro D500 vs ATI Radeon X1950 GT

VS

AMD FirePro D500

ATI Radeon X1950 GT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM FirePro D500 and 256MB VRAM Radeon X1950 GT 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 38.40GB/s)

1536 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon X1950 GT 's Advantages

Lower TDP (57W vs 274W)

Score

FirePro D500

VS

Radeon X1950 GT

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

-

1270 MHz

Memory Clock

600 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

243.8GB/s

Bandwidth

38.40GB/s

Render Config

24

Compute Units

-

1536

Shading Units

-

96

TMUs

12

32

ROPs

12

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

768 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

23.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.000 GPixel/s

69.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

6.000 GTexel/s

-

2.227 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

556.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

274W

TDP

57W

600 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2 1x SDI

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

-

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

RV570

Tahiti LE GL

GPU Variant

RV570 XL

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

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

4.6

OpenGL

2.1 (full) 3.0 (partial)

1.2

OpenCL

N/A

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

5.1

Shader Model

3.0

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