GeForce GTX 1650 vs FirePro D500

Place in performance ranking	395	256
Place by popularity	not in top-100	3
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	2.63	19.00
Architecture	GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)	Turing (2018−2021)
GPU code name	Tahiti	TU117
Market segment	Workstation	Desktop
Release date	18 January 2014 (10 years ago)	23 April 2019 (5 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	no data	$149
Current price	$475	$185 (1.2x MSRP)

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

GTX 1650 has 622% 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	896
Core clock speed	725 MHz	1485 MHz
Boost clock speed	no data	1665 MHz
Number of transistors	4,313 million	4,700 million
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	274 Watt	75 Watt
Texture fill rate	69.60	93.24
Floating-point performance	2,227 gflops	no data

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 3.0 x16
Length	279 mm	229 mm
Width	2-slot	2-slot
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	8000 MHz
Memory bandwidth	243.8 GB/s	128.0 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	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
HDMI	no data	+

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	6.5
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
OpenCL	1.2	1.2
Vulkan	1.2.131	1.2.131
CUDA	no data	7.5

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	35−40 −100%	70 +100%
1440p	18−20 −111%	38 +111%
4K	12−14 −91.7%	23 +91.7%

Pros & cons summary

Performance score	10.70	20.35
Recency	18 January 2014	23 April 2019
Maximum RAM amount	3 GB	4 GB
Chip lithography	28 nm	12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	274 Watt	75 Watt