AMD FirePro D500 vs AMD Radeon HD 7870 XT

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM FirePro D500 and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7870 XT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro D500 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 2 months late

More VRAM (3GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (243.8GB/s vs 192.0GB/s)

AMD Radeon HD 7870 XT 's Advantages

Boost Clock975MHz

Lower TDP (185W vs 274W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro D500

2.227 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7870 XT +34%

2.995 TFLOPS

FirePro D500

VS

Radeon HD 7870 XT

Graphics Card

Jan 2014

Release Date

Nov 2012

FirePro

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

925 MHz

-

Boost Clock

975 MHz

1270 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

243.8GB/s

Bandwidth

192.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

24

Compute Units

24

1536

Shading Units

1536

96

TMUs

96

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

768 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

23.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

31.20 GPixel/s

69.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

93.60 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.227 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.995 TFLOPS

556.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

748.8 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

Tahiti

Tahiti LE GL

GPU Variant

Tahiti LE (215-0821122)

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

Board Design

274W

TDP

185W

600 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2 1x SDI

Outputs

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

-

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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