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AMD FirePro D500 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM FirePro D500 and 1280MB VRAM GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro D500 's Advantages
More VRAM (3GB vs 1280GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (243.8GB/s vs 133.9GB/s)
1088 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition 's Advantages
Lower TDP (215W vs 274W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)
FirePro D500 +104%
2.227 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition
1.089 TFLOPS

Graphics Card

Jan 2014
Release Date
Unknown
FirePro
Generation
GeForce 400
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-
-
-
-
-
-
1270 MHz
Memory Clock
837 MHz

Memory

3GB
Memory Size
1280MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
384bit
Memory Bus
320bit
243.8GB/s
Bandwidth
133.9GB/s

Render Config

24
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
14
1536
Shading Units
448
96
TMUs
56
32
ROPs
40
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
768 KB
L2 Cache
640 KB
-
-
-

Theoretical Performance

23.20 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
17.02 GPixel/s
69.60 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
34.05 GTexel/s
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-
-
2.227 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1089 GFLOPS
556.8 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-

Board Design

274W
TDP
215W
600 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2 1x SDI
Outputs
2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a
-
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Tahiti
GPU Name
GT215
Tahiti LE GL
GPU Variant
GT215-400-A2
GCN 1.0
Architecture
Tesla 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
40 nm
4.313 billion
Transistors
0.727 billion
352 mm²
Die Size
144 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
2.0
5.1
Shader Model
5.1
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