GeForce GTX 980 Ti and FirePro D500 - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 980 Ti
FirePro D500
Architecture
Maxwell (2014−2018)
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GPU code name
GM200
Tahiti
Market segment
Desktop
Workstation
Release date
June 2015
January 2014
Bus support
PCI Express 3.0
-
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Recommended system power (PSU)
600 Watt
-
Supplementary power connectors
6-pin + 8-pin
-
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
1075 MHz
-
Core clock speed
1000 MHz
725 MHz
CUDA cores
2816
-
Floating-point performance
6,060 gflops
2,227 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
8,000 million
4,313 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2816
1536
Power consumption (TDP)
250 Watt
274 Watt
Texture fill rate
176 billion/sec
69.60
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
6 GB
3 GB
Memory bus width
384 Bit
384 Bit
Memory clock speed
7.0 GB/s
5080 MHz
Memory bandwidth
336.5 GB/s
243.8 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
Dual Link DVI-I, HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.2
6x mini-DisplayPort, 1x SDI
Multi monitor support
4 displays
-
HDMI
+
-
HDCP
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
G-SYNC support
+
-
Audio input for HDMI
Internal
-
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 (11_1)
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.5
4.6
Shader Model
6.4
5.1
Vulkan
1.1.126
1.2.131
GameStream
+
-
GameWorks
+
-
GeForce ShadowPlay
+
-
GPU Boost
2.0
-