FirePro W5100 vs FirePro D500

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Aggregate performance score

We've compared FirePro D500 and FirePro W5100, covering specs and all relevant benchmarks.

FirePro D500
2014
3 GB GDDR5, 274 Watt
10.83
+38.7%

D500 outperforms W5100 by a substantial 39% based on our aggregate benchmark results.

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking422516
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency2.8511.27
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2011−2020)GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
GPU code nameTahitiBonaire
Market segmentWorkstationWorkstation
Release date18 January 2014 (10 years ago)31 March 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 cores1536768
Core clock speed725 MHz930 MHz
Number of transistors4,313 million2,080 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)274 Watt50 Watt
Texture fill rate69.6044.64
Floating-point processing power2.227 TFLOPS1.428 TFLOPS
ROPs3216
TMUs9648

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).

Bus supportno dataPCIe 3.0
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x16
Length279 mm171 mm
Width2-slot1-slot
Form factorno datafull height / half length
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 typeGDDR5GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount3 GB4 GB
Memory bus width384 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed1270 MHz1500 MHz
Memory bandwidth243.8 GB/s96 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 DisplayPort
StereoOutput3D-+
DisplayPort countno data4
Dual-link DVI support-+
HD сomponent video output-+

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_1)12 (12_0)
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.

Pros & cons summary


Performance score 10.83 7.81
Recency 18 January 2014 31 March 2014
Maximum RAM amount 3 GB 4 GB
Power consumption (TDP) 274 Watt 50 Watt

FirePro D500 has a 38.7% higher aggregate performance score.

FirePro W5100, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 2 months, a 33.3% higher maximum VRAM amount, and 448% lower power consumption.

The FirePro D500 is our recommended choice as it beats the FirePro W5100 in performance tests.


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