FirePro D500 and RTX A4000 - video card comparison

FirePro D500

RTX A4000

Architecture

GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

Tahiti

GA104

Market segment

Workstation

Workstation

Release date

January 2014

April 2021

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

-

1x 6-pin

Boost clock speed

-

1560 MHz

Core clock speed

725 MHz

-

Floating-point performance

2,227 gflops

-

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

4,313 million

17,400 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

1536

6144

Power consumption (TDP)

274 Watt

140 Watt

Texture fill rate

69.60

299.5

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

3 GB

16 GB

Memory bus width

384 Bit

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

5080 MHz

14 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

243.8 GB/s

448.0 GB/s

Display Connectors

6x mini-DisplayPort, 1x SDI

4x DisplayPort 1.4a

DirectX

12 (11_1)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

-

8.6

OpenCL

1.2

3.0

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Shader Model

5.1

6.7

Vulkan

1.2.131

1.3