Quadro M2000 and FirePro D500 - video card comparison

Quadro M2000

FirePro D500

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0 (2015−2019)

GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)

GPU code name

GM206

Tahiti

Market segment

Workstation

Workstation

Release date

April 2016

January 2014

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 3.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

None

-

Boost clock speed

1163 MHz

-

Core clock speed

796 MHz

725 MHz

Floating-point performance

1,812 gflops

2,227 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

28 nm

Number of transistors

2,940 million

4,313 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

768

1536

Power consumption (TDP)

75 Watt

274 Watt

Texture fill rate

55.82

69.60

Memory type

128 Bit

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

4 GB

3 GB

Memory bus width

128 Bit

384 Bit

Memory clock speed

6612 MHz

5080 MHz

Memory bandwidth

Up to 106 GB/s

243.8 GB/s

Display Connectors

DP DP DP DP

6x mini-DisplayPort, 1x SDI

Number of simultaneous displays

4

-

DirectX

12

12 (11_1)

CUDA

5.2

-

OpenCL

1.2

1.2

OpenGL

4.5

4.6

Shader Model

5

5.1

Vulkan

+

1.2.131

3D Vision Pro

+

-

Mosaic

+

-

nView Desktop Management

+

-