AMD FirePro D500 vs AMD Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition

GPU Specs Compare

Graphics Card

Release Date
Jan 2014
Aug 2012
Generation
FirePro
Northern Islands
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

Memory Clock
1270 MHz
1000 MHz

Memory

Memory Size
3GB
1024MB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
384bit
256bit
Bandwidth
243.8GB/s
128.0GB/s

Render Config

Compute Units
24
18
Shading Units
1536
1440
TMUs
96
72
ROPs
32
32
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
8 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
768 KB
512 KB

Theoretical Performance

Pixel Rate
23.20 GPixel/s
23.20 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
69.60 GTexel/s
52.20 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
2.227 TFLOPS
2.088 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
556.8 GFLOPS
417.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GPU Name
Tahiti
Cypress
GPU Variant
Tahiti LE GL
Cypress PRO(215-0735043)
Architecture
GCN 1.0
TeraScale 2
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
40 nm
Transistors
4.313 billion
2.154 billion
Die Size
352 mm²
334 mm²

Board Design

TDP
274W
151W
Suggested PSU
600 W
450 W
Outputs
6x mini-DisplayPort 1.21x SDI
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.3a1x DisplayPort 1.1
Power Connectors
-
2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

DirectX
12 (11_1)
11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.4
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
Vulkan
1.2
N/A
Shader Model
5.1
5.0