NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X vs AMD FirePro D500

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

AMD FirePro D500

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X and 3GB VRAM FirePro D500 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1709MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 3GB)

Lower TDP (120W vs 274W)

AMD FirePro D500 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (243.8GB/s vs 192.2GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X +96%

4.375 TFLOPS

FirePro D500

2.227 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

VS

FirePro D500

Graphics Card

Oct 2018

Release Date

Jan 2014

GeForce 10

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1506 MHz

Base Clock

-

1709 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1001 MHz

Memory Clock

1270 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5X

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

384bit

192.2GB/s

Bandwidth

243.8GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

24

10

SM Count

-

1280

Shading Units

1536

80

TMUs

96

48

ROPs

32

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

82.03 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

23.20 GPixel/s

136.7 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

69.60 GTexel/s

68.36 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.375 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.227 TFLOPS

136.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

556.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

120W

TDP

274W

300 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2 1x SDI

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

GP104

GPU Name

Tahiti

GP104-150-KA-A1

GPU Variant

Tahiti LE GL

Pascal

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

28 nm

7.2 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

314 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

6.1

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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