NVIDIA GeForce GT 440 Mac Edition vs AMD FirePro D500
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 440 Mac Edition and 3GB VRAM FirePro D500 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce GT 440 Mac Edition 's Advantages
Lower TDP (65W vs 274W)
AMD FirePro D500 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 11 months late
More VRAM (3GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (243.8GB/s vs 21.34GB/s)
1440 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GT 440 Mac Edition
0.311 TFLOPS
FirePro D500
+616%
2.227 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Feb 2011
Release Date
Jan 2014
GeForce 400
Generation
FirePro
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
667 MHz
Memory Clock
1270 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
3GB
DDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
384bit
21.34GB/s
Bandwidth
243.8GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
24
2
SM Count
-
96
Shading Units
1536
16
TMUs
96
4
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
64 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
256 KB
L2 Cache
768 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
3.240 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
23.20 GPixel/s
12.96 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
69.60 GTexel/s
-
-
-
311.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.227 TFLOPS
25.92 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
556.8 GFLOPS
Board Design
65W
TDP
274W
250 W
Suggested PSU
600 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.3a
1x VGA
Outputs
6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
1x SDI
None
Power Connectors
-
Graphics Processor
GF108
GPU Name
Tahiti
GF108-400-A1
GPU Variant
Tahiti LE GL
Fermi
Architecture
GCN 1.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
28 nm
0.585 billion
Transistors
4.313 billion
116 mm²
Die Size
352 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
12 (11_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
1.2
N/A
Vulkan
1.2
2.1
CUDA
-
5.1
Shader Model
5.1
