FirePro D500: specs and benchmarks
Aggregate performance score
FirePro D500 provides acceptable gaming and benchmark performance at 10.74% of a leader's which is GeForce RTX 4090.
Summary
AMD started FirePro D500 sales 18 January 2014. This is a GCN 1.0 architecture desktop card based on 28 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at designers. 3 GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 5.08 GHz are supplied, and together with 384 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 243.8 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is dual-slot card attached via PCIe 3.0 x16 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 279 mm. No additional power connector is required, and power consumption is at 274 Watt.
Primary details
Some basic facts about FirePro D500: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in performance ranking | 397 | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Cost-effectiveness evaluation | 2.84 | |
| Architecture | GCN 1.0 (2012−2020) | |
| GPU code name | Tahiti | |
| Market segment | Workstation | |
| Release date | 18 January 2014 (10 years ago) |
Cost-effectiveness evaluation
Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.
Detailed specifications
FirePro D500's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of FirePro D500's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 1536 | of 20480 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT) |
| Core clock speed | 725 MHz | of 2610 (Radeon RX 6500 XT) |
| Number of transistors | 4,313 million | of 14400 (GeForce GTX 1080 SLI Mobile) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 28 nm | of 4 (H100 PCIe) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 274 Watt | of 2400 (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem) |
| Texture fill rate | 69.60 | of 969.9 (H100 SXM5 96 GB) |
| Floating-point performance | 2,227 gflops | of 16384 (Radeon Pro Duo) |
Form factor & compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of FirePro D500 and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).
| Interface | PCIe 3.0 x16 | |
| Length | 279 mm | |
| Width | 2-slot |
VRAM capacity and type
Parameters of memory installed on FirePro D500: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.
| Memory type | GDDR5 | |
| Maximum RAM amount | 3 GB | of 192 (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
| Memory bus width | 384 Bit | of 8192 (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory clock speed | 5080 MHz | of 23000 (GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER) |
| Memory bandwidth | 243.8 GB/s | of 3276 (Aldebaran) |
Connectivity and outputs
Types and number of video connectors present on FirePro D500. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.
| Display Connectors | 6x mini-DisplayPort, 1x SDI |
API compatibility
APIs supported by FirePro D500, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 12 (11_1) | |
| Shader Model | 5.1 | |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | |
| OpenCL | 1.2 | |
| Vulkan | 1.2.131 |
Benchmark performance
Synthetic benchmark performance of FirePro D500. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.
Combined synthetic benchmark score
This is our combined benchmark performance score. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.
We have no data on FirePro D500 benchmark results.
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NVIDIA equivalent
According to our data, the closest NVIDIA alternative to FirePro D500 is Quadro K5000, which is slower by 4% and lower by 11 positions in our ranking.
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Similar GPUs
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Recommended processors
These processors are most commonly used with FirePro D500 according to our statistics.
