Silicon Motion SM502 vs FirePro D700

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking367not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency3.54no data
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2011−2020)no data
GPU code nameTahitino data
Market segmentWorkstationLaptop
Release date18 January 2014 (10 years ago)1 January 2007 (17 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 cores2048no data
Core clock speed850 MHzno data
Number of transistors4,313 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology28 nmno data
Power consumption (TDP)274 Wattno data
Texture fill rate108.8no data
Floating-point processing power3.482 TFLOPSno data
ROPs32no data
TMUs128no 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).

InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16no data
Length279 mmno data
Width2-slotno data

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 typeGDDR5no data
Maximum RAM amount6 GBno data
Memory bus width384 Bitno data
Memory clock speed1370 MHzno data
Memory bandwidth263.0 GB/sno data
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 Connectors6x mini-DisplayPort, 1x SDIno data

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_1)no data
Shader Model5.1no data
OpenGL4.6no data
OpenCL1.2no data
Vulkan1.2.131-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 18 January 2014 1 January 2007

FirePro D700 has an age advantage of 7 years.

We couldn't decide between FirePro D700 and Silicon Motion SM502. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that FirePro D700 is a workstation card while Silicon Motion SM502 is a notebook one.


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