FirePro D500 and Quadro NVS 280 SD - video card comparison
FirePro D500
Quadro NVS 280 SD
Architecture
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
Celsius (1999−2005)
GPU code name
Tahiti
NV18 C1
Market segment
Workstation
Workstation
Release date
January 2014
May 2005
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
AGP 8x
Supplementary power connectors
-
None
Core clock speed
725 MHz
250 MHz
Floating-point performance
2,227 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
150 nm
Number of transistors
4,313 million
29 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1536
-
Power consumption (TDP)
274 Watt
10 Watt
Texture fill rate
69.60
1.000
Memory type
GDDR5
DDR
Maximum RAM amount
3 GB
64 MB
Memory bus width
384 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
5080 MHz
400 MHz
Memory bandwidth
243.8 GB/s
3.2 GB/s
Display Connectors
6x mini-DisplayPort, 1x SDI
1x DMS-59
DirectX
12 (11_1)
8.0
OpenCL
1.2
N/A
OpenGL
4.6
1.3
Shader Model
5.1
-
Vulkan
1.2.131
N/A