FirePro D500 and Quadro FX 540 - video card comparison
FirePro D500
Quadro FX 540
Architecture
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
Curie (2003−2013)
GPU code name
Tahiti
NV43 A2
Market segment
Workstation
Workstation
Release date
January 2014
August 2004
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
-
None
Core clock speed
725 MHz
300 MHz
Floating-point performance
2,227 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
110 nm
Number of transistors
4,313 million
146 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1536
-
Power consumption (TDP)
274 Watt
25 Watt
Texture fill rate
69.60
2.400
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
3 GB
128 MB
Memory bus width
384 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
5080 MHz
500 MHz
Memory bandwidth
243.8 GB/s
8 GB/s
Display Connectors
6x mini-DisplayPort, 1x SDI
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 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