NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 vs AMD FirePro D500

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

AMD FirePro D500

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 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 980 's Advantages

Released 8 months late

Boost Clock1216MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 3GB)

512 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (165W vs 274W)

AMD FirePro D500 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (243.8GB/s vs 224.4GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 980 +123%

4.981 TFLOPS

FirePro D500

2.227 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980

VS

FirePro D500

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

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

-

1216 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

1270 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

224.4GB/s

Bandwidth

243.8GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

24

-

2048

Shading Units

1536

128

TMUs

96

64

ROPs

32

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

77.82 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

23.20 GPixel/s

155.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

69.60 GTexel/s

-

4.981 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.227 TFLOPS

155.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

556.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

165W

TDP

274W

450 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

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

Outputs

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2 1x SDI

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

Tahiti

GM204-400-A1

GPU Variant

Tahiti LE GL

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

398 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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