T600 vs FirePro D500

Place in the ranking	443	341
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Power efficiency	2.67	28.75
Architecture	GCN 1.0 (2011−2020)	Turing (2018−2022)
GPU code name	Tahiti	TU117
Market segment	Workstation	Workstation
Release date	18 January 2014 (11 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 cores	1536	640
Core clock speed	725 MHz	735 MHz
Boost clock speed	no data	1335 MHz
Number of transistors	4,313 million	4,700 million
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	274 Watt	40 Watt
Texture fill rate	69.60	53.40
Floating-point processing power	2.227 TFLOPS	1.709 TFLOPS
ROPs	32	32
TMUs	96	40

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	no data
Width	2-slot	1-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	GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount	3 GB	4 GB
Memory bus width	384 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1270 MHz	1250 MHz
Memory bandwidth	243.8 GB/s	160.0 GB/s
Shared memory	-	-

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

4x mini-DisplayPort

API and SDK compatibility

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

DirectX	12 (11_1)	12 (12_1)
Shader Model	5.1	6.6
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
OpenCL	1.2	3.0
Vulkan	1.2.131	1.2
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 HD	30−35 −80%	54 +80%
1440p	14−16 −64.3%	23 +64.3%
4K	12−14 −66.7%	20 +66.7%

FPS performance in popular games

Full HD
Low Preset

Atomic Heart	40−45 +0%	40−45 +0%
Counter-Strike 2	85−90 +0%	85−90 +0%
Cyberpunk 2077	30−35 +0%	30−35 +0%

Full HD
Medium Preset

Atomic Heart	40−45 +0%	40−45 +0%
Battlefield 5	65−70 +0%	65−70 +0%
Counter-Strike 2	85−90 +0%	85−90 +0%
Cyberpunk 2077	30−35 +0%	30−35 +0%
Far Cry 5	46 +0%	46 +0%
Fortnite	85−90 +0%	85−90 +0%
Forza Horizon 4	65−70 +0%	65−70 +0%
Forza Horizon 5	50−55 +0%	50−55 +0%
PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS	55−60 +0%	55−60 +0%
Valorant	120−130 +0%	120−130 +0%

Full HD
High Preset

Atomic Heart	40−45 +0%	40−45 +0%
Battlefield 5	65−70 +0%	65−70 +0%
Counter-Strike 2	85−90 +0%	85−90 +0%
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive	200−210 +0%	200−210 +0%
Cyberpunk 2077	30−35 +0%	30−35 +0%
Dota 2	121 +0%	121 +0%
Far Cry 5	42 +0%	42 +0%
Fortnite	85−90 +0%	85−90 +0%
Forza Horizon 4	65−70 +0%	65−70 +0%
Forza Horizon 5	50−55 +0%	50−55 +0%
Grand Theft Auto V	59 +0%	59 +0%
Metro Exodus	26 +0%	26 +0%
PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS	55−60 +0%	55−60 +0%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	48 +0%	48 +0%
Valorant	120−130 +0%	120−130 +0%

Full HD
Ultra Preset

Battlefield 5	65−70 +0%	65−70 +0%
Cyberpunk 2077	30−35 +0%	30−35 +0%
Dota 2	111 +0%	111 +0%
Far Cry 5	39 +0%	39 +0%
Forza Horizon 4	65−70 +0%	65−70 +0%
PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS	55−60 +0%	55−60 +0%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	27 +0%	27 +0%
Valorant	120−130 +0%	120−130 +0%

Full HD
Epic Preset

Fortnite

85−90

+0%

85−90

+0%

1440p
High Preset

Counter-Strike 2	30−35 +0%	30−35 +0%
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive	110−120 +0%	110−120 +0%
Grand Theft Auto V	27 +0%	27 +0%
Metro Exodus	15 +0%	15 +0%
PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS	150−160 +0%	150−160 +0%
Valorant	150−160 +0%	150−160 +0%

1440p
Ultra Preset

Battlefield 5	40−45 +0%	40−45 +0%
Cyberpunk 2077	14−16 +0%	14−16 +0%
Far Cry 5	26 +0%	26 +0%
Forza Horizon 4	35−40 +0%	35−40 +0%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	24−27 +0%	24−27 +0%

1440p
Epic Preset

Fortnite

35−40

+0%

35−40

+0%

4K
High Preset

Atomic Heart	12−14 +0%	12−14 +0%
Counter-Strike 2	12−14 +0%	12−14 +0%
Grand Theft Auto V	25 +0%	25 +0%
Metro Exodus	8 +0%	8 +0%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	16 +0%	16 +0%
Valorant	85−90 +0%	85−90 +0%

4K
Ultra Preset

Battlefield 5	21−24 +0%	21−24 +0%
Counter-Strike 2	12−14 +0%	12−14 +0%
Cyberpunk 2077	6−7 +0%	6−7 +0%
Dota 2	40 +0%	40 +0%
Far Cry 5	12 +0%	12 +0%
Forza Horizon 4	27−30 +0%	27−30 +0%
PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS	14−16 +0%	14−16 +0%

4K
Epic Preset

Fortnite

16−18

+0%

16−18

+0%

This is how FirePro D500 and T600 compete in popular games:

T600 is 80% faster in 1080p
T600 is 64% faster in 1440p
T600 is 67% faster in 4K

All in all, in popular games:

there's a draw in 63 tests (100%)

Pros & cons summary

Performance score	9.22	14.50
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	40 Watt

T600 has a 57.3% 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 585% lower power consumption.

The T600 is our recommended choice as it beats the FirePro D500 in performance tests.