AMD FirePro D500 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM FirePro D500 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTS 450 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD FirePro D500 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 4 months late
More VRAM (3GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (243.8GB/s vs 57.73GB/s)
1344 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 's Advantages
Lower TDP (106W vs 274W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FirePro D500
+270%
2.227 TFLOPS
GeForce GTS 450
0.601 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jan 2014
Release Date
Sep 2010
FirePro
Generation
GeForce 400
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
1270 MHz
Memory Clock
902 MHz
Memory
3GB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
384bit
Memory Bus
128bit
243.8GB/s
Bandwidth
57.73GB/s
Render Config
24
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
4
1536
Shading Units
192
96
TMUs
32
32
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
768 KB
L2 Cache
256 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
23.20 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
6.264 GPixel/s
69.60 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
25.06 GTexel/s
-
-
-
2.227 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
601.3 GFLOPS
556.8 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
50.11 GFLOPS
Board Design
274W
TDP
106W
600 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
1x SDI
Outputs
2x DVI
1x mini-HDMI 1.3a
-
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
Tahiti
GPU Name
GF106
Tahiti LE GL
GPU Variant
GF106-250-KA-A1
GCN 1.0
Architecture
Fermi
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
40 nm
4.313 billion
Transistors
1.17 billion
352 mm²
Die Size
238 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_1)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
1.2
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
2.1
5.1
Shader Model
5.1
