Radeon Pro Vega 20 vs FirePro D500

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Combined performance score

FirePro D500
10.33

Radeon Pro Vega 20 outperforms FirePro D500 by 32% in our combined benchmark results.

General info

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in performance ranking400348
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Value for money2.3914.40
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2012−2020)Vega (2017−2021)
GPU code nameTahitiVega Mobile
Market segmentWorkstationMobile workstation
Release date18 January 2014 (10 years old)15 November 2018 (5 years old)
Current price$475 $360
Value for money

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

Pro Vega 20 has 503% better value for money than FirePro D500.

Technical specs

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 cores15361280
Core clock speed725 MHz815 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1283 MHz
Number of transistors4,313 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology28 nm14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)274 Watt100 Watt
Texture fill rate69.60102.6
Floating-point performance2,227 gflopsno data

Size and compatibility

Information on FirePro D500 and Radeon Pro Vega 20 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 sizeno datalarge
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x16
Length279 mmno data
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectorsno data1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Memory

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 typeGDDR5HBM2
Maximum RAM amount3 GB4 GB
Memory bus width384 Bit1024 Bit
Memory clock speed5080 MHz1480 MHz
Memory bandwidth243.8 GB/s189.4 GB/s
Shared memoryno data-

Video outputs and ports

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 Connectors6x mini-DisplayPort, 1x SDINo outputs

API support

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

DirectX12 (11_1)12 (12_1)
Shader Model5.16.3
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.22.0
Vulkan1.2.1311.2.131

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 HD45−50
−35.6%
61
+35.6%
4K30−35
−36.7%
41
+36.7%

Advantages and disadvantages


Performance score 10.33 13.67
Recency 18 January 2014 15 November 2018
Maximum RAM amount 3 GB 4 GB
Chip lithography 28 nm 14 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 274 Watt 100 Watt

The Radeon Pro Vega 20 is our recommended choice as it beats the FirePro D500 in performance tests.

Be aware that FirePro D500 is a workstation card while Radeon Pro Vega 20 is a mobile workstation one.


Should you still have questions concerning choice between the reviewed GPUs, ask them in Comments section, and we shall answer.

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