Radeon RX Vega 56 and FirePro D500 - video card comparison

Radeon RX Vega 56

FirePro D500

Architecture

Vega (2017−2021)

GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)

GPU code name

Vega

Tahiti

Market segment

Desktop

Workstation

Release date

August 2017

January 2014

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 3.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

2x 8-pin

-

Boost clock speed

1474 MHz

-

Core clock speed

1138 MHz

725 MHz

Floating-point performance

10,566 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

329.5

69.60

Memory type

HBM2

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

8 GB

3 GB

Memory bus width

409.6 Bit

384 Bit

Memory clock speed

800 MHz

5080 MHz

Memory bandwidth

409.6 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

4.6

Shader Model

6.4

5.1

Vulkan

1.1.125

1.2.131