AMD FirePro D500 vs ATI Radeon X1950 PRO DUAL
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM FirePro D500 and 512MB VRAM Radeon X1950 PRO DUAL 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 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (243.8GB/s vs 44.16GB/s)
1536 additional rendering cores
ATI Radeon X1950 PRO DUAL 's Advantages
Lower TDP (130W 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
-
-
-
-
-
-
1270 MHz
Memory Clock
690 MHz
Memory
3GB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
384bit
Memory Bus
256bit
243.8GB/s
Bandwidth
44.16GB/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
6.900 GPixel/s
69.60 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
6.900 GTexel/s
-
-
-
2.227 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
-
556.8 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
274W
TDP
130W
600 W
Suggested PSU
300 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 XT
(215PADAKA12FG)
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
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-
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5.1
Shader Model
3.0
