FirePro D500 and Quadro 5000 - video card comparison

FirePro D500

Quadro 5000

Architecture

GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)

Fermi (2010−2014)

GPU code name

Tahiti

GF100

Market segment

Workstation

Workstation

Release date

January 2014

February 2011

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 2.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

-

1x 6-pin

Core clock speed

725 MHz

513 MHz

Floating-point performance

2,227 gflops

722.3 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

40 nm

Number of transistors

4,313 million

3,100 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

1536

352

Power consumption (TDP)

274 Watt

152 Watt

Texture fill rate

69.60

22.57

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

3 GB

2.5 GB

Memory bus width

384 Bit

320 Bit

Memory clock speed

5080 MHz

3000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

243.8 GB/s

120.0 GB/s

Display Connectors

6x mini-DisplayPort, 1x SDI

1x DVI, 2x DisplayPort

DirectX

12 (11_1)

12 (11_0)

CUDA

-

2.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.1

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Shader Model

5.1

5.1

Vulkan

1.2.131

N/A