AMD Radeon R9 285X vs AMD FirePro D500

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 285X and 3GB VRAM FirePro D500 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 285X 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 243.8GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (200W vs 274W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 285X +84%

4.104 TFLOPS

FirePro D500

2.227 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 285X

VS

FirePro D500

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Jan 2014

Volcanic Islands

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

1270 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

384bit

264.0GB/s

Bandwidth

243.8GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

32

Compute Units

24

2048

Shading Units

1536

128

TMUs

96

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

768 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

32.06 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

23.20 GPixel/s

128.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

69.60 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

4.104 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.227 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

556.8 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Tonga

GPU Name

Tahiti

Tonga XT (215-0851313)

GPU Variant

Tahiti LE GL

GCN 3.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

5 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

366 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Board Design

200W

TDP

274W

550 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

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

Outputs

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2 1x SDI

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

6.3

Shader Model

5.1

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