GeForce GTS 450 vs FirePro D500

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450

AMD FirePro D500

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTS 450 and 3GB VRAM FirePro D500 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

GeForce GTS 450 Advantages

Lower TDP (106W vs 274W)

FirePro D500 Advantages

Released 3 years and 4 months late

More VRAM (3GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (243.8GB/s vs 57.73GB/s)

1344 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTS 450

601

FirePro D500 +270%

2227

GeForce GTS 450

VS

FirePro D500

Graphics Card

Sep 2010

Release Date

Jan 2014

GeForce 400

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

902 MHz

Memory Clock

1270 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

384bit

57.73GB/s

Bandwidth

243.8GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

24

4

SM Count

-

192

Shading Units

1536

32

TMUs

96

16

ROPs

32

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

6.264 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

23.20 GPixel/s

25.06 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

69.60 GTexel/s

601.3 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.227 TFLOPS

50.11 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

556.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

106W

TDP

274W

300 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

2x DVI
1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
1x SDI

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

GF106

GPU Name

Tahiti

GF106-250-KA-A1

GPU Variant

Tahiti LE GL

Fermi

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.17 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

238 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

2.1

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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