AMD FirePro D500 vs NVIDIA RTX A1000
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM FirePro D500 and 8GB VRAM RTX A1000 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD FirePro D500 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (243.8GB/s vs 192.0GB/s)
NVIDIA RTX A1000 's Advantages
Released 10 years and 3 months late
Boost Clock1462MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)
768 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (50W vs 274W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FirePro D500
2.227 TFLOPS
RTX A1000
+202%
6.737 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jan 2014
Release Date
Apr 2024
FirePro
Generation
Quadro Ampere
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x8
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
727 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1462 MHz
1270 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
Memory
3GB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
384bit
Memory Bus
128bit
243.8GB/s
Bandwidth
192.0GB/s
Render Config
24
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
18
1536
Shading Units
2304
96
TMUs
72
32
ROPs
32
-
Tensor Cores
72
-
RT Cores
18
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
768 KB
L2 Cache
2 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
23.20 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
46.78 GPixel/s
69.60 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
105.3 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
6.737 TFLOPS
2.227 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
6.737 TFLOPS
556.8 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
105.3 GFLOPS
Board Design
274W
TDP
50W
600 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
1x SDI
Outputs
4x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a
-
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Tahiti
GPU Name
GA107
Tahiti LE GL
GPU Variant
-
GCN 1.0
Architecture
Ampere
TSMC
Foundry
Samsung
28 nm
Process Size
8 nm
4.313 billion
Transistors
8.7 billion
352 mm²
Die Size
200 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_1)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
1.2
OpenCL
3.0
1.2
Vulkan
1.3
-
CUDA
8.6
5.1
Shader Model
6.7
