AMD FirePro D500 vs ATI Radeon HD 2900 GT
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM FirePro D500 and 256MB VRAM Radeon HD 2900 GT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD FirePro D500 's Advantages
Released 6 years and 2 months late
More VRAM (3GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (243.8GB/s vs 51.20GB/s)
1296 additional rendering cores
ATI Radeon HD 2900 GT 's Advantages
Lower TDP (150W vs 274W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FirePro D500
+673%
2.227 TFLOPS
Radeon HD 2900 GT
0.288 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jan 2014
Release Date
Nov 2007
FirePro
Generation
Radeon R600
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
1270 MHz
Memory Clock
800 MHz
Memory
3GB
Memory Size
256MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
384bit
Memory Bus
256bit
243.8GB/s
Bandwidth
51.20GB/s
Render Config
24
Compute Units
3
-
-
-
1536
Shading Units
240
96
TMUs
12
32
ROPs
12
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
768 KB
L2 Cache
128 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
23.20 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
7.212 GPixel/s
69.60 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
7.212 GTexel/s
-
-
-
2.227 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
288.5 GFLOPS
556.8 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
274W
TDP
150W
600 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
1x SDI
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
-
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
Tahiti
GPU Name
R600
Tahiti LE GL
GPU Variant
R600 GT
(215RGFDKA13FG)
GCN 1.0
Architecture
TeraScale
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
80 nm
4.313 billion
Transistors
0.72 billion
352 mm²
Die Size
420 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_1)
DirectX
10.0 (10_0)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3 (full)
4.0 (partial)
1.2
OpenCL
N/A
1.2
Vulkan
N/A
-
-
-
5.1
Shader Model
4.0
