GeForce GTX 460 vs FirePro D500
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 768MB VRAM GeForce GTX 460 and 3GB VRAM FirePro D500 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GTX 460 's Advantages
Lower TDP (160W vs 274W)
FirePro D500 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 6 months late
More VRAM (3GB vs 768GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (243.8GB/s vs 86.40GB/s)
1200 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 460
907
FirePro D500
+145%
2227
Graphics Card
Jul 2010
Release Date
Jan 2014
GeForce 400
Generation
FirePro
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
900 MHz
Memory Clock
1270 MHz
Memory
768MB
Memory Size
3GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
192bit
Memory Bus
384bit
86.40GB/s
Bandwidth
243.8GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
24
7
SM Count
-
336
Shading Units
1536
56
TMUs
96
24
ROPs
32
64 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
384 KB
L2 Cache
768 KB
Theoretical Performance
9.450 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
23.20 GPixel/s
37.80 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
69.60 GTexel/s
907.2 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.227 TFLOPS
75.60 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
556.8 GFLOPS
Board Design
160W
TDP
274W
450 W
Suggested PSU
600 W
2x DVI
1x mini-HDMI 1.3a
Outputs
6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
1x SDI
Graphics Processor
GF104
GPU Name
Tahiti
GF104-300-KB-A1
GPU Variant
Tahiti LE GL
Fermi
Architecture
GCN 1.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
28 nm
1.95 billion
Transistors
4.313 billion
332 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
