AMD FirePro D500 vs AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

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AMD FirePro D500 AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

We compared a Desktop platform GPU: 3GB VRAM FirePro D500 and a Mobile platform GPU: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 M290X Mac 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 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (243.8GB/s vs 174.7GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition 's Advantages

Released 10 months late

Boost Clock975MHz

Lower TDP (80W vs 274W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro D500 +11%

2.227 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

1.997 TFLOPS

FirePro D500

VS

Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Jan 2014

Release Date

Nov 2014

FirePro

Generation

Crystal System

Desktop

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

850 MHz

-

Boost Clock

975 MHz

1270 MHz

Memory Clock

1365 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

243.8GB/s

Bandwidth

174.7GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

24

Compute Units

16

1536

Shading Units

1024

96

TMUs

64

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

768 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

23.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

31.20 GPixel/s

69.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

62.40 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.227 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.997 TFLOPS

556.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

124.8 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

Pitcairn

Tahiti LE GL

GPU Variant

Pitcairn PRO (215-0828062)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Board Design

274W

TDP

80W

600 W

Suggested PSU

-

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2 1x SDI

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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