CMP 40HX vs FirePro D500

Place in the ranking	484	302
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	no data	10.45
Power efficiency	2.77	8.69
Architecture	GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)	Turing (2018−2022)
GPU code name	Tahiti	TU106
Market segment	Workstation	Workstation
Release date	18 January 2014 (11 years ago)	25 February 2021 (4 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	no data	$699

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

The higher the ratio, the better. We use the manufacturer's recommended prices.

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Performance to price scatter graph

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	1536	2304
Core clock speed	725 MHz	1470 MHz
Boost clock speed	no data	1650 MHz
Number of transistors	4,313 million	10,800 million
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	274 Watt	185 Watt
Texture fill rate	69.60	237.6
Floating-point processing power	2.227 TFLOPS	7.603 TFLOPS
ROPs	32	64
TMUs	96	144
Tensor Cores	no data	288
Ray Tracing Cores	no data	36
L1 Cache	384 KB	2.3 MB
L2 Cache	768 KB	4 MB

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 1.0 x4
Length	279 mm	229 mm
Width	2-slot	2-slot
Supplementary power connectors	no data	1x 8-pin

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount	3 GB	8 GB
Memory bus width	384 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	1270 MHz	1750 MHz
Memory bandwidth	243.8 GB/s	448.0 GB/s

Connectivity and outputs

This section shows the types and number of video connectors on each GPU. The data applies specifically to desktop reference models (for example, NVIDIA’s Founders Edition). OEM partners often modify both the number and types of ports. On notebook GPUs, video‐output options are determined by the laptop’s design rather than the graphics chip itself.

Display Connectors

6x mini-DisplayPort, 1x SDI

No outputs

API and SDK support

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX	12 (11_1)	12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model	5.1	6.8
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
OpenCL	1.2	3.0
Vulkan	1.2.131	1.3
CUDA	-	7.5
DLSS	-	+

Gaming performance

Let's see how good the compared graphics cards are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.

Pros & cons summary

Performance score	9.79	20.73
Recency	18 January 2014	25 February 2021
Maximum RAM amount	3 GB	8 GB
Chip lithography	28 nm	12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	274 Watt	185 Watt

CMP 40HX has a 111.7% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 7 years, a 166.7% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 133.3% more advanced lithography process, and 48.1% lower power consumption.

The CMP 40HX is our recommended choice as it beats the FirePro D500 in performance tests.