NVIDIA B100 vs AMD FirePro D500
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 96GB VRAM B100 and 3GB VRAM FirePro D500 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA B100 's Advantages
Released 10 years and 10 months late
Boost Clock1837MHz
More VRAM (96GB vs 3GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (4.10TB/s vs 243.8GB/s)
15360 additional rendering cores
AMD FirePro D500 's Advantages
Lower TDP (274W vs 1000W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
B100
+2687%
62.08 TFLOPS
FirePro D500
2.227 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Nov 2024
Release Date
Jan 2014
Server Blackwell
Generation
FirePro
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 5.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1665 MHz
Base Clock
-
1837 MHz
Boost Clock
-
2000 MHz
Memory Clock
1270 MHz
Memory
96GB
Memory Size
3GB
HBM3e
Memory Type
GDDR5
4096bit
Memory Bus
384bit
4.10TB/s
Bandwidth
243.8GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
24
132
SM Count
-
16896
Shading Units
1536
528
TMUs
96
24
ROPs
32
528
Tensor Cores
-
-
-
-
256 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
50 MB
L2 Cache
768 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
44.09 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
23.20 GPixel/s
969.9 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
69.60 GTexel/s
248.3 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
62.08 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.227 TFLOPS
31.04 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
556.8 GFLOPS
Board Design
1000W
TDP
274W
1400 W
Suggested PSU
600 W
No outputs
Outputs
6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
1x SDI
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-
-
Graphics Processor
GB102
GPU Name
Tahiti
-
GPU Variant
Tahiti LE GL
Blackwell
Architecture
GCN 1.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
5 nm
Process Size
28 nm
104 billion
Transistors
4.313 billion
Unknown
Die Size
352 mm²
Graphics Features
N/A
DirectX
12 (11_1)
N/A
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
1.2
N/A
Vulkan
1.2
10.1
CUDA
-
N/A
Shader Model
5.1
