Product Compare

AMD FirePro D500 vs ATI Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition

GPU GPU
Graphics Card
Release Date Jan 2014 Jun 2010
Generation FirePro Evergreen
Type Desktop Desktop
Bus Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock 1270 MHz 1195 MHz
Memory
Memory Size 3GB 1024MB
Memory Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Memory Bus 384bit 256bit
Bandwidth 243.8GB/s 153.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units 24 20
Shading Units 1536 1600
TMUs 96 80
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 27.20 GPixel/s
Texture Rate 69.60 GTexel/s 68.00 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) 2.227 TFLOPS 2.720 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) 556.8 GFLOPS 544.0 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name Tahiti Cypress
GPU Variant Tahiti LE GL Cypress XT(215-0735033)
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 228W
Suggested PSU 600 W 550 W
Outputs 6x mini-DisplayPort 1.21x SDI 1x DVI2x mini-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