FirePro D500 and Quadro FX 4600 - video card comparison

FirePro D500

Quadro FX 4600

Architecture

GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)

Tesla (2006−2010)

GPU code name

Tahiti

G80

Market segment

Workstation

Workstation

Release date

January 2014

March 2007

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 1.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

-

1x 6-pin

Core clock speed

725 MHz

500 MHz

Floating-point performance

2,227 gflops

230.4 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

90 nm

Number of transistors

4,313 million

681 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

1536

96

Power consumption (TDP)

274 Watt

134 Watt

Texture fill rate

69.60

24.00

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR3

Maximum RAM amount

3 GB

768 MB

Memory bus width

384 Bit

384 Bit

Memory clock speed

5080 MHz

1400 MHz

Memory bandwidth

243.8 GB/s

67.2 GB/s

Display Connectors

6x mini-DisplayPort, 1x SDI

2x DVI, 1x S-Video

DirectX

12 (11_1)

11.1 (10_0)

CUDA

-

+

OpenCL

1.2

1.1

OpenGL

4.6

3.3

Shader Model

5.1

4.0

Vulkan

1.2.131

N/A