NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 Core 512 vs AMD FirePro D500

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 Core 512

AMD FirePro D500

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 480 Core 512 and 3GB VRAM FirePro D500 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro D500 's Advantages

More VRAM (3GB vs 1536GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (243.8GB/s vs 134.4GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (274W vs 375W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 480 Core 512

1.078 TFLOPS

FirePro D500 +106%

2.227 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 480 Core 512

VS

FirePro D500

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

-

700 MHz

Memory Clock

1270 MHz

Memory

1536MB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

384bit

134.4GB/s

Bandwidth

243.8GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

24

16

SM Count

-

512

Shading Units

1536

64

TMUs

96

48

ROPs

32

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

768 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

16.86 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

23.20 GPixel/s

33.73 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

69.60 GTexel/s

-

1078 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.227 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

556.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

375W

TDP

274W

750 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2 1x SDI

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

GF100

GPU Name

Tahiti

GF100-ES-DT1-A2

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

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