Radeon Pro Vega 56 and FirePro D500 - video card comparison

Radeon Pro Vega 56

FirePro D500

Architecture

Vega (2017−2021)

GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)

GPU code name

Vega

Tahiti

Market segment

Workstation

Release date

December 2017

January 2014

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

None

Boost clock speed

1250 MHz

Core clock speed

1247 MHz

725 MHz

Floating-point performance

9,677 gflops

2,227 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

14 nm

28 nm

Number of transistors

12,500 million

4,313 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

3584

1536

Power consumption (TDP)

210 Watt

274 Watt

Texture fill rate

280.0

69.60

Memory type

HBM2

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

8 GB

3 GB

Memory bus width

2048 Bit

384 Bit

Memory clock speed

786 MHz

5080 MHz

Memory bandwidth

402.4 GB/s

243.8 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

6x mini-DisplayPort, 1x SDI

HDMI

DirectX

12 (12_1)

12 (11_1)

OpenCL

2.0

1.2

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

6.4

5.1

Vulkan

1.1.125

1.2.131