FirePro D500 and GeForce GTX 550 Ti - video card comparison

FirePro D500

GeForce GTX 550 Ti

Architecture

GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)

Fermi (2010−2014)

GPU code name

Tahiti

GF116

Market segment

Workstation

Desktop

Release date

January 2014

March 2011

Bus support

-

16x PCI-E 2.0

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 2.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

-

One 6-pin

SLI options

-

+

Core clock speed

725 MHz

900 MHz

CUDA cores

-

192

Floating-point performance

2,227 gflops

691.2 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

40 nm

Number of transistors

4,313 million

1,170 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

1536

192

Power consumption (TDP)

274 Watt

116 Watt

Maximum GPU temperature

-

100 °C

Texture fill rate

69.60

28.8 billion/sec

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

3 GB

2 GB

Memory bus width

384 Bit

192 Bit

Memory clock speed

5080 MHz

4.1 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

243.8 GB/s

98.4 GB/s

Display Connectors

6x mini-DisplayPort, 1x SDI

Two Dual Link DVI-IMini HDMI

Multi monitor support

-

+

HDMI

-

+

Maximum VGA resolution

-

2048x1536

Audio input for HDMI

-

Internal

DirectX

12 (11_1)

12 (11_0)

CUDA

-

+

OpenCL

1.2

1.1

OpenGL

4.6

4.2

Shader Model

5.1

5.1

Vulkan

1.2.131

N/A