3D Rage IIC PCI vs FirePro D500
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2MB VRAM 3D Rage IIC PCI and 3GB VRAM FirePro D500 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
FirePro D500 's Advantages
Released 16 years and 9 months late
More VRAM (3GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (243.8GB/s vs 0.664GB/s)
1536 additional rendering cores
Score
Graphics Card
Apr 1997
Release Date
Jan 2014
Rage 2
Generation
FirePro
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCI
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
83 MHz
Memory Clock
1270 MHz
Memory
2MB
Memory Size
3GB
SDR
Memory Type
GDDR5
64bit
Memory Bus
384bit
0.664GB/s
Bandwidth
243.8GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
24
-
Shading Units
1536
1
TMUs
96
1
ROPs
32
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
-
L2 Cache
768 KB
Theoretical Performance
60.00 MPixel/s
Pixel Rate
23.20 GPixel/s
60.00 MTexel/s
Texture Rate
69.60 GTexel/s
-
FP32 (float)
2.227 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
556.8 GFLOPS
Board Design
Unknown
TDP
274W
200 W
Suggested PSU
600 W
1x VGA
Outputs
6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
1x SDI
Graphics Processor
Rage IIC
GPU Name
Tahiti
Rage IIC PCI
(215R2PZUA21)
GPU Variant
Tahiti LE GL
Rage 2
Architecture
GCN 1.0
UMC
Foundry
TSMC
500 nm
Process Size
28 nm
0.005 billion
Transistors
4.313 billion
39 mm²
Die Size
352 mm²
Graphics Features
5.0
DirectX
12 (11_1)
N/A
OpenGL
4.6
N/A
OpenCL
1.2
N/A
Vulkan
1.2
-
Shader Model
5.1
