FirePro D500 and GeForce GT 525M - video card comparison

FirePro D500

GeForce GT 525M

Architecture

GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)

Fermi (2010−2014)

GPU code name

Tahiti

N12P-GE

Market segment

Workstation

Laptop

Release date

January 2014

January 2011

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 2.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

-

None

Core clock speed

725 MHz

600 MHz

CUDA cores

-

96

Floating-point performance

2,227 gflops

230.4 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

40 nm

Number of transistors

4,313 million

585 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

1536

96

Power consumption (TDP)

274 Watt

23 Watt

Texture fill rate

69.60

9.6 billion/sec

Memory type

GDDR5

DDR3

Maximum RAM amount

3 GB

1536 MB

Memory bus width

384 Bit

128 Bit

Memory clock speed

5080 MHz

900 MHz

Memory bandwidth

243.8 GB/s

28.8 GB/s

Shared memory

-

-

Display Connectors

6x mini-DisplayPort, 1x SDI

No outputs

DirectX

12 (11_1)

12 API

CUDA

-

+

OpenCL

1.2

1.1

OpenGL

4.6

4.5

Shader Model

5.1

5.1

Vulkan

1.2.131

N/A

Optimus

-

+