AMD FirePro D500 vs NVIDIA A30 PCIe
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM FirePro D500 and 24GB VRAM A30 PCIe to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA A30 PCIe 's Advantages
Released 7 years and 3 months late
Boost Clock1440MHz
More VRAM (24GB vs 3GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (933.1GB/s vs 243.8GB/s)
2048 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (165W vs 274W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FirePro D500
2.227 TFLOPS
A30 PCIe
+363%
10.32 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jan 2014
Release Date
Apr 2021
FirePro
Generation
Tesla Ampere
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
930 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1440 MHz
1270 MHz
Memory Clock
1215 MHz
Memory
3GB
Memory Size
24GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
HBM2e
384bit
Memory Bus
3072bit
243.8GB/s
Bandwidth
933.1GB/s
Render Config
24
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
56
1536
Shading Units
3584
96
TMUs
224
32
ROPs
96
-
Tensor Cores
224
-
-
-
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
192 KB (per SM)
768 KB
L2 Cache
24 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
23.20 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
138.2 GPixel/s
69.60 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
322.6 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
10.32 TFLOPS
2.227 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
10.32 TFLOPS
556.8 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
5.161 TFLOPS
Board Design
274W
TDP
165W
600 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
1x SDI
Outputs
No outputs
-
Power Connectors
8-pin EPS
Graphics Processor
Tahiti
GPU Name
GA100
Tahiti LE GL
GPU Variant
-
GCN 1.0
Architecture
Ampere
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
7 nm
4.313 billion
Transistors
54.2 billion
352 mm²
Die Size
826 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_1)
DirectX
N/A
4.6
OpenGL
N/A
1.2
OpenCL
3.0
1.2
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
8.0
5.1
Shader Model
N/A
