GeForce GTX 1050 Max-Q vs FirePro D500

Place in performance ranking	401	398
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Cost-Effectiveness Evaluation	2.44	3.53
Architecture	GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)	Pascal (2016−2021)
GPU code name	Tahiti	N17P-G0 Max-Q
Market segment	Workstation	Laptop
Release date	18 January 2014 (10 years ago)	3 January 2018 (6 years ago)
Current price	$475	$1085

Cost-Effectiveness Evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

GTX 1050 Max-Q has 45% better value for money than FirePro D500.

Detailed Specifications

General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	1536	640
Core clock speed	725 MHz	999 - 1189 MHz
Boost clock speed	no data	1139 - 1328 MHz
Number of transistors	4,313 million	3,300 million
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	274 Watt	34 - 40 Watt
Texture fill rate	69.60	53.12
Floating-point performance	2,227 gflops	1,700 gflops

Form Factor & Compatibility

Information on FirePro D500 and GeForce GTX 1050 Max-Q compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop video cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility). For notebook video cards it's notebook size, connection slot and bus, if the video card is inserted into a slot instead of being soldered to the notebook motherboard.

Laptop size	no data	large
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
Length	279 mm	no data
Width	2-slot	no data
Supplementary power connectors	no data	None

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	GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount	3 GB	4 GB
Memory bus width	384 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	5080 MHz	7000 MHz
Memory bandwidth	243.8 GB/s	112.1 GB/s
Shared memory	no data	-

Connectivity and Outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors

6x mini-DisplayPort, 1x SDI

No outputs

API Compatibility

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

DirectX	12 (11_1)	12 (12_1)
Shader Model	5.1	6.4
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
OpenCL	1.2	1.2
Vulkan	1.2.131	1.2.131
CUDA	no data	6.1

Gaming performance

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

Average FPS across all PC games

Here are the average frames per second in a large set of popular games across different resolutions:

Full HD	45−50 −4.4%	47 +4.4%
1440p	21−24 −4.8%	22 +4.8%
4K	12−14 −16.7%	14 +16.7%

Pros & Cons Summary

Performance score	10.35	10.45
Recency	18 January 2014	3 January 2018
Maximum RAM amount	3 GB	4 GB
Chip lithography	28 nm	14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	274 Watt	34 Watt