FirePro D500 and Quadro FX 3500 - video card comparison

FirePro D500

Quadro FX 3500

Architecture

GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)

Curie (2003−2013)

GPU code name

Tahiti

G71

Market segment

Workstation

Workstation

Release date

January 2014

May 2006

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 1.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

-

None

Core clock speed

725 MHz

450 MHz

Floating-point performance

2,227 gflops

-

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

90 nm

Number of transistors

4,313 million

278 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

1536

-

Power consumption (TDP)

274 Watt

80 Watt

Texture fill rate

69.60

9.000

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR3

Maximum RAM amount

3 GB

256 MB

Memory bus width

384 Bit

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

5080 MHz

1320 MHz

Memory bandwidth

243.8 GB/s

42.24 GB/s

Display Connectors

6x mini-DisplayPort, 1x SDI

2x DVI, 1x S-Video

DirectX

12 (11_1)

9.0c (9_3)

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

Shader Model

5.1

3.0

Vulkan

1.2.131

N/A