FirePro D500 and Quadro FX 1700 - video card comparison

FirePro D500

Quadro FX 1700

Architecture

GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)

Tesla (2006−2010)

GPU code name

Tahiti

G84

Market segment

Workstation

Workstation

Release date

January 2014

September 2007

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 1.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

-

None

Core clock speed

725 MHz

460 MHz

Floating-point performance

2,227 gflops

58.88 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

80 nm

Number of transistors

4,313 million

289 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

1536

32

Power consumption (TDP)

274 Watt

42 Watt

Texture fill rate

69.60

7.360

Memory type

GDDR5

DDR2

Maximum RAM amount

3 GB

512 MB

Memory bus width

384 Bit

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

5080 MHz

800 MHz

Memory bandwidth

243.8 GB/s

25.6 GB/s

Display Connectors

6x mini-DisplayPort, 1x SDI

2x DVI, 1x S-Video

DirectX

12 (11_1)

11.1 (10_0)

CUDA

-

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

1.1

OpenGL

4.6

3.3

Shader Model

5.1

4.0

Vulkan

1.2.131

N/A