AMD FirePro D500 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Rev. 2
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM FirePro D500 and 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Rev. 2 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 2 months late
More VRAM (3GB vs 896GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (243.8GB/s vs 111.9GB/s)
1320 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Rev. 2 's Advantages
Lower TDP (171W vs 274W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FirePro D500
+315%
2.227 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Rev. 2
0.536 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jan 2014
Release Date
Nov 2008
FirePro
Generation
GeForce 200
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
1270 MHz
Memory Clock
999 MHz
Memory
3GB
Memory Size
896MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
384bit
Memory Bus
448bit
243.8GB/s
Bandwidth
111.9GB/s
Render Config
24
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
27
1536
Shading Units
216
96
TMUs
72
32
ROPs
28
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
768 KB
L2 Cache
224 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
23.20 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
16.13 GPixel/s
69.60 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
41.47 GTexel/s
-
-
-
2.227 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
536.5 GFLOPS
556.8 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
67.07 GFLOPS
Board Design
274W
TDP
171W
600 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
1x SDI
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
-
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
Tahiti
GPU Name
GT200B
Tahiti LE GL
GPU Variant
G200-103-B2
GCN 1.0
Architecture
Tesla 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
55 nm
4.313 billion
Transistors
1.4 billion
352 mm²
Die Size
470 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
1.3
5.1
Shader Model
4.0
