FirePro D500 and Radeon R5 M255 - video card comparison

FirePro D500

Radeon R5 M255

Architecture

GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)

GCN (2011−2017)

GPU code name

Tahiti

Topaz Pro / Sun

Market segment

Workstation

Laptop

Release date

January 2014

May 2014

Bus support

-

PCIe 3.0 x8

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 3.0 x8

Boost clock speed

-

940 MHz

Compute units

-

5

Core clock speed

725 MHz

940 MHz

Floating-point performance

2,227 gflops

721.9 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

28 nm

Number of transistors

4,313 million

1,550 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

1536

320

Power consumption (TDP)

274 Watt

-

Texture fill rate

69.60

22.56

Memory type

GDDR5

DDR3

Maximum RAM amount

3 GB

4 GB

Memory bus width

384 Bit

64 Bit

Memory clock speed

5080 MHz

1000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

243.8 GB/s

16 GB/s

Shared memory

-

-

Display Connectors

6x mini-DisplayPort, 1x SDI

No outputs

Eyefinity

-

+

DirectX

12 (11_1)

DirectX® 11

Mantle

-

+

OpenCL

1.2

Not Listed

OpenGL

4.6

4.4

Shader Model

5.1

6.3

Vulkan

1.2.131

-

AppAcceleration

-

+

DualGraphics

-

1

Enduro

-

-

HD3D

-

+

PowerTune

-

+

Switchable graphics

-

1

TrueAudio

-

-

ZeroCore

-

+