NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 vs AMD FirePro D500

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 AMD FirePro D500

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1080 and 3GB VRAM FirePro D500 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080's Advantages

Released 2 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock 1733MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.3GB/s vs 243.8GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (180W vs 274W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1080 +298%

8.873 TFLOPS

FirePro D500

2.227 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1080

VS

FirePro D500

Graphics Card

May 2016

Release Date

Jan 2014

GeForce 10

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1607MHz

Base Clock

-

1733MHz

Boost Clock

-

1251MHz

Memory Clock

1270MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5X

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

320.3 GB/s

Bandwidth

243.8 GB/s

Render Config

20

SM Count

-

Compute Units

24

2560

Shading Units

1536

160

TMUs

96

64

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2MB

L2 Cache

768KB

Theoretical Performance

110.9 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

23.20 GPixel/s

277.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

69.60 GTexel/s

138.6 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

8.873 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.227 TFLOPS

277.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

556.8 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP104

GPU Name

Tahiti

GP104-400-A1

GPU Variant

Tahiti LE GL

Pascal

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

28 nm

7,200 million

Transistors

4,313 million

314mm²

Die Size

352mm²

Board Design

180W

TDP

274W

450W

Suggested PSU

600W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2 1x SDI

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

6.1

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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