AMD FirePro D500 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9400 GT Rev. 3
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM FirePro D500 and 128MB VRAM GeForce 9400 GT Rev. 3 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD FirePro D500 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 7 months late
More VRAM (3GB vs 128GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (243.8GB/s vs 9.600GB/s)
1520 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce 9400 GT Rev. 3 's Advantages
Lower TDP (50W vs 274W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FirePro D500
+4848%
2.227 TFLOPS
GeForce 9400 GT Rev. 3
0.045 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jan 2014
Release Date
Jun 2012
FirePro
Generation
GeForce 9
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
1270 MHz
Memory Clock
600 MHz
Memory
3GB
Memory Size
128MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
DDR2
384bit
Memory Bus
64bit
243.8GB/s
Bandwidth
9.600GB/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
2.356 GPixel/s
69.60 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
4.712 GTexel/s
-
-
-
2.227 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
44.86 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
GT218
Tahiti LE GL
GPU Variant
GT218-670-B1
GCN 1.0
Architecture
Tesla 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
40 nm
4.313 billion
Transistors
0.26 billion
352 mm²
Die Size
57 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_1)
DirectX
11.1 (10_1)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
1.2
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
1.2
5.1
Shader Model
4.1
