NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 vs AMD FirePro D500

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 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 960 's Advantages

Released 1 years late

Boost Clock1178MHz

Lower TDP (120W vs 274W)

AMD FirePro D500 's Advantages

More VRAM (3GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (243.8GB/s vs 112.2GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 960 +8%

2.413 TFLOPS

FirePro D500

2.227 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960

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FirePro D500

Graphics Card

Jan 2015

Release Date

Jan 2014

GeForce 900

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1127 MHz

Base Clock

-

1178 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

1270 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

384bit

112.2GB/s

Bandwidth

243.8GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

24

1024

Shading Units

1536

64

TMUs

96

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

37.70 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

23.20 GPixel/s

75.39 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

69.60 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

-

2.413 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.227 TFLOPS

75.39 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

556.8 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM206

GPU Name

Tahiti

GM206-300-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

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 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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