FirePro D500 and Quadro NVS 280 PCI - video card comparison

FirePro D500

Quadro NVS 280 PCI

Architecture

GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)

Rankine (2003−2005)

GPU code name

Tahiti

NV34 B1

Market segment

Workstation

Release date

January 2014

October 2003

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCI

Supplementary power connectors

None

Core clock speed

725 MHz

275 MHz

Floating-point performance

2,227 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

150 nm

Number of transistors

4,313 million

45 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

1536

Power consumption (TDP)

274 Watt

13 Watt

Texture fill rate

69.60

1.100

Memory type

GDDR5

DDR

Maximum RAM amount

3 GB

64 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 DMS-59

DirectX

12 (11_1)

9.0a

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

OpenGL

4.6

1.5 (2.1)

Shader Model

5.1

Vulkan

1.2.131

N/A