FirePro D500 vs Radeon R9 370

Place in the ranking	400	426
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Power efficiency	7.70	2.74
Architecture	GCN 1.0 (2011−2020)	GCN 1.0 (2011−2020)
GPU code name	Trinidad	Tahiti
Market segment	Desktop	Workstation
Release date	5 May 2015 (9 years ago)	18 January 2014 (10 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	1280	1536
Core clock speed	925 MHz	725 MHz
Boost clock speed	975 MHz	no data
Number of transistors	2,800 million	4,313 million
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	110 Watt	274 Watt
Texture fill rate	78.00	69.60
Floating-point processing power	2.496 TFLOPS	2.227 TFLOPS
ROPs	32	32
TMUs	80	96

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	221 mm	279 mm
Width	2-slot	2-slot
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin	no 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 type	GDDR5	GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	3 GB
Memory bus width	256 Bit	384 Bit
Memory clock speed	1400 MHz	1270 MHz
Memory bandwidth	179.2 GB/s	243.8 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 Connectors	2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort	6x mini-DisplayPort, 1x SDI
HDMI	+	-

API compatibility

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

DirectX	12 (11_1)	12 (11_1)
Shader Model	5.1	5.1
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
OpenCL	1.2	1.2
Vulkan	1.2.131	1.2.131

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 HD

45
+28.6%

35−40

−28.6%

Pros & cons summary

Performance score	12.24	10.84
Recency	5 May 2015	18 January 2014
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	3 GB
Power consumption (TDP)	110 Watt	274 Watt

R9 370 has a 12.9% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 1 year, a 33.3% higher maximum VRAM amount, and 149.1% lower power consumption.

The Radeon R9 370 is our recommended choice as it beats the FirePro D500 in performance tests.

Be aware that Radeon R9 370 is a desktop card while FirePro D500 is a workstation one.

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