AMD FirePro D500 vs ATI Radeon X1950 XTX Uber Edition

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AMD FirePro D500

ATI Radeon X1950 XTX Uber Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM FirePro D500 and 512MB VRAM Radeon X1950 XTX Uber Edition 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 67.20GB/s)

1536 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon X1950 XTX Uber Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (125W vs 274W)

Score

FirePro D500

VS

Radeon X1950 XTX Uber Edition

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

1050 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR4

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

243.8GB/s

Bandwidth

67.20GB/s

Render Config

24

Compute Units

-

1536

Shading Units

-

96

TMUs

16

32

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

768 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

23.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.72 GPixel/s

69.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

10.72 GTexel/s

-

2.227 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

556.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

274W

TDP

125W

600 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2 1x SDI

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VHDCI

-

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

R580+

Tahiti LE GL

GPU Variant

R580+ XT (215BAABKA31FG)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

R500

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

90 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

0.384 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

352 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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