NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 vs AMD FirePro D500

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950

AMD FirePro D500

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 950 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 950 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock1188MHz

Lower TDP (90W vs 274W)

AMD FirePro D500 's Advantages

More VRAM (3GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (243.8GB/s vs 105.8GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 950

1.825 TFLOPS

FirePro D500 +22%

2.227 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 950

VS

FirePro D500

Graphics Card

Aug 2015

Release Date

Jan 2014

GeForce 900

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1024 MHz

Base Clock

-

1188 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1653 MHz

Memory Clock

1270 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

384bit

105.8GB/s

Bandwidth

243.8GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

24

-

768

Shading Units

1536

48

TMUs

96

32

ROPs

32

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

38.02 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

23.20 GPixel/s

57.02 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

69.60 GTexel/s

-

1.825 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.227 TFLOPS

57.02 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

556.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

90W

TDP

274W

250 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

GM206

GPU Name

Tahiti

GM206-250-A1

GPU Variant

Tahiti LE GL

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.94 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

228 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

5.2

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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