NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 X2 vs AMD FirePro D500
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 470 X2 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 470 X2 's Advantages
Lower TDP (215W vs 274W)
AMD FirePro D500 's Advantages
More VRAM (3GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (243.8GB/s vs 107.1GB/s)
1184 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 470 X2
0.855 TFLOPS
FirePro D500
+160%
2.227 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Unknown
Release Date
Jan 2014
GeForce 400
Generation
FirePro
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
837 MHz
Memory Clock
1270 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
3GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
384bit
107.1GB/s
Bandwidth
243.8GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
24
11
SM Count
-
352
Shading Units
1536
44
TMUs
96
32
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
64 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
512 KB
L2 Cache
768 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
13.38 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
23.20 GPixel/s
26.75 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
69.60 GTexel/s
-
-
-
855.4 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.227 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
556.8 GFLOPS
Board Design
215W
TDP
274W
550 W
Suggested PSU
600 W
3x DVI
Outputs
6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
1x SDI
2x 8-pin
Power Connectors
-
Graphics Processor
GF100
GPU Name
Tahiti
GF100-030-A3
GPU Variant
Tahiti LE GL
Fermi
Architecture
GCN 1.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
28 nm
3.1 billion
Transistors
4.313 billion
529 mm²
Die Size
352 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
12 (11_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
1.2
N/A
Vulkan
1.2
2.0
CUDA
-
5.1
Shader Model
5.1
