FirePro D500 and Radeon RX 6500M - video card comparison

FirePro D500

Radeon RX 6500M

Architecture

GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)

RDNA 2 (2020−2022)

GPU code name

Tahiti

Navi 24

Market segment

Workstation

Laptop

Release date

January 2014

January 2022

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x8

Supplementary power connectors

-

None

Boost clock speed

-

2191 MHz

Core clock speed

725 MHz

-

Floating-point performance

2,227 gflops

-

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

6 nm

Number of transistors

4,313 million

5,400 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

1536

1024

Power consumption (TDP)

274 Watt

50 Watt

Texture fill rate

69.60

153.6

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

3 GB

4 GB

Memory bus width

384 Bit

64 Bit

Memory clock speed

5080 MHz

18000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

243.8 GB/s

288.0 GB/s

Shared memory

-

-

Display Connectors

6x mini-DisplayPort, 1x SDI

No outputs

DirectX

12 (11_1)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

OpenCL

1.2

2.1

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Shader Model

5.1

6.6

Vulkan

1.2.131

1.2