AMD Radeon R9 290X vs AMD FirePro D500

VS

AMD Radeon R9 290X

AMD FirePro D500

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X 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 290X 's Advantages

More VRAM (4GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 243.8GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

AMD FirePro D500 's Advantages

Lower TDP (274W vs 290W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290X +152%

5.632 TFLOPS

FirePro D500

2.227 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X

VS

FirePro D500

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Jan 2014

Volcanic Islands

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1270 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

512bit

Memory Bus

384bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

243.8GB/s

Render Config

44

Compute Units

24

-

2816

Shading Units

1536

176

TMUs

96

64

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

64.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

23.20 GPixel/s

176.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

69.60 GTexel/s

-

5.632 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.227 TFLOPS

704.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

556.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

290W

TDP

274W

600 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 Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

Tahiti

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

GPU Variant

Tahiti LE GL

GCN 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

6.3

Shader Model

5.1

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