FirePro D500 and GeForce 940MX - video card comparison

FirePro D500

GeForce 940MX

Architecture

GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)

Maxwell (2014−2018)

GPU code name

Tahiti

N16S-GTR-B/S

Market segment

Workstation

Laptop

Release date

January 2014

March 2016

Bus support

-

PCI Express 3.0

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 3.0 x8

Supplementary power connectors

-

None

Boost clock speed

-

1242 MHz

Core clock speed

725 MHz

1122 MHz

Floating-point performance

2,227 gflops

762.6 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

28 nm

Number of transistors

4,313 million

1,870 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

1536

384

Power consumption (TDP)

274 Watt

23 Watt

Texture fill rate

69.60

23.83

Memory type

GDDR5

DDR3, GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

3 GB

4 GB

Memory bus width

384 Bit

64 Bit

Memory clock speed

5080 MHz

4000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

243.8 GB/s

40.1 GB/s

Shared memory

-

-

Display Connectors

6x mini-DisplayPort, 1x SDI

No outputs

DirectX

12 (11_1)

12 (11_0)

CUDA

-

+

OpenCL

1.2

1.2

OpenGL

4.6

4.5

Shader Model

5.1

5.1

Vulkan

1.2.131

1.1

GameWorks

-

+

GPU Boost

-

2.0

Optimus

-

+