AMD FirePro D500 vs NVIDIA GeForce 256 SDR
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM FirePro D500 and 32MB VRAM GeForce 256 SDR to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD FirePro D500 's Advantages
Released 14 years and 3 months late
More VRAM (3GB vs 32GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (243.8GB/s vs 1.144GB/s)
1536 additional rendering cores
Score
Graphics Card
Jan 2014
Release Date
Oct 1999
FirePro
Generation
GeForce 256
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
AGP 4x
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
1270 MHz
Memory Clock
143 MHz
Memory
3GB
Memory Size
32MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
SDR
384bit
Memory Bus
64bit
243.8GB/s
Bandwidth
1.144GB/s
Render Config
24
Compute Units
-
-
-
-
1536
Shading Units
-
96
TMUs
4
32
ROPs
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
768 KB
L2 Cache
-
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
23.20 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
480.0 MPixel/s
69.60 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
480.0 MTexel/s
-
-
-
2.227 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
-
556.8 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
274W
TDP
Unknown
600 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
1x SDI
Outputs
1x VGA
-
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Tahiti
GPU Name
NV10
Tahiti LE GL
GPU Variant
-
GCN 1.0
Architecture
Celsius
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
220 nm
4.313 billion
Transistors
0.017 billion
352 mm²
Die Size
139 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_1)
DirectX
7.0
4.6
OpenGL
1.2
1.2
OpenCL
N/A
1.2
Vulkan
N/A
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-
-
5.1
Shader Model
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