AMD Radeon HD 7950 Boost vs AMD FirePro D500

VS

AMD Radeon HD 7950 Boost

AMD FirePro D500

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7950 Boost and 3GB VRAM FirePro D500 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 7950 Boost 's Advantages

Boost Clock925MHz

256 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (200W vs 274W)

AMD FirePro D500 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 7 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (243.8GB/s vs 240.0GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7950 Boost +48%

3.315 TFLOPS

FirePro D500

2.227 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7950 Boost

VS

FirePro D500

Graphics Card

Jun 2012

Release Date

Jan 2014

Southern Islands

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

850 MHz

Base Clock

-

925 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1270 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

384bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

243.8GB/s

Render Config

28

Compute Units

24

-

1792

Shading Units

1536

112

TMUs

96

32

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

768 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

23.20 GPixel/s

103.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

69.60 GTexel/s

-

3.315 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.227 TFLOPS

828.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

556.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

200W

TDP

274W

550 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2 1x SDI

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

Tahiti

Tahiti PRO2 (215-0821282)

GPU Variant

Tahiti LE GL

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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