AMD FirePro D500 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9400 GT PCI
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM FirePro D500 and 256MB VRAM GeForce 9400 GT PCI to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD FirePro D500 's Advantages
Released 5 years and 5 months late
More VRAM (3GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (243.8GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)
1520 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce 9400 GT PCI 's Advantages
Lower TDP (50W vs 274W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FirePro D500
+4848%
2.227 TFLOPS
GeForce 9400 GT PCI
0.045 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jan 2014
Release Date
Aug 2008
FirePro
Generation
GeForce 9
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCI
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
1270 MHz
Memory Clock
400 MHz
Memory
3GB
Memory Size
256MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
DDR2
384bit
Memory Bus
128bit
243.8GB/s
Bandwidth
12.80GB/s
Render Config
24
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
2
1536
Shading Units
16
96
TMUs
8
32
ROPs
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
768 KB
L2 Cache
32 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
23.20 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
2.200 GPixel/s
69.60 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
4.400 GTexel/s
-
-
-
2.227 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
44.80 GFLOPS
556.8 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
274W
TDP
50W
600 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
1x SDI
Outputs
1x DVI
1x VGA
1x S-Video
-
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Tahiti
GPU Name
G96C
Tahiti LE GL
GPU Variant
-
GCN 1.0
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
55 nm
4.313 billion
Transistors
0.314 billion
352 mm²
Die Size
121 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_1)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
1.2
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
1.1
5.1
Shader Model
4.0
