T1000 vs FirePro D500

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Aggregate performance score

We've compared FirePro D500 and T1000, covering specs and all relevant benchmarks.

FirePro D500
2014
3 GB GDDR5, 274 Watt
10.84

T1000 outperforms D500 by an impressive 83% based on our aggregate benchmark results.

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking427277
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency2.7127.23
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2011−2020)Turing (2018−2022)
GPU code nameTahitiTU117
Market segmentWorkstationWorkstation
Release date18 January 2014 (10 years ago)6 May 2021 (3 years ago)

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 cores1536896
Core clock speed725 MHz1065 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1395 MHz
Number of transistors4,313 million4,700 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)274 Watt50 Watt
Texture fill rate69.6078.12
Floating-point processing power2.227 TFLOPS2.5 TFLOPS
ROPs3232
TMUs9656

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).

InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x16
Length279 mmno data
Width2-slot1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

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 typeGDDR5GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount3 GB4 GB
Memory bus width384 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed1270 MHz1250 MHz
Memory bandwidth243.8 GB/s160.0 GB/s

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 Connectors6x mini-DisplayPort, 1x SDI4x mini-DisplayPort

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_1)12 (12_1)
Shader Model5.16.6
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.23.0
Vulkan1.2.1311.2
CUDA-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 HD30−35
−90%
57
+90%

Pros & cons summary


Performance score 10.84 19.87
Recency 18 January 2014 6 May 2021
Maximum RAM amount 3 GB 4 GB
Chip lithography 28 nm 12 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 274 Watt 50 Watt

T1000 has a 83.3% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 7 years, a 33.3% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 133.3% more advanced lithography process, and 448% lower power consumption.

The T1000 is our recommended choice as it beats the FirePro D500 in performance tests.


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