Radeon RX 7900 GRE vs FirePro D500

#ad 
Buy on Amazon
FirePro D500 FirePro D700 FirePro S9000 FirePro S9010 FirePro S9050 FirePro S10000 FirePro S10000 Passive FirePro S10000 Passive 12GB FirePro W8000 FirePro W9000 Radeon Sky 700 Radeon Sky 900
VS
#ad 
Buy on Amazon
Radeon RX 5700 Radeon RX 7500 XT Radeon RX 7600 Radeon RX 7600 XT Radeon RX 7700 Radeon RX 7700 XT Radeon RX 7800 XT Radeon RX 7900 GRE Radeon RX 7900 XT Radeon RX 7900 XTX Radeon RX 7950 XTX Radeon RX 7990 XTX

Aggregate performance score

We've compared FirePro D500 with Radeon RX 7900 GRE, including specs and performance data.

FirePro D500
2014
3 GB GDDR5, 274 Watt
10.83

RX 7900 GRE outperforms D500 by a whopping 539% based on our aggregate benchmark results.

Contents

FirePro D500 FirePro D500
RX 7900 GRE RX 7900 GRE

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking42224
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency2.7518.50
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2011−2020)RDNA 3.0 (2022−2024)
GPU code nameTahitiNavi 31
Market segmentWorkstationDesktop
Release date18 January 2014 (10 years ago)27 July 2023 (1 year 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 cores15365120
Core clock speed725 MHz1287 MHz
Boost clock speedno data2245 MHz
Number of transistors4,313 million57,700 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)274 Watt260 Watt
Texture fill rate69.60718.4
Floating-point processing power2.227 TFLOPS45.98 TFLOPS
ROPs32160
TMUs96320
Ray Tracing Coresno data80

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 4.0 x16
Length279 mm276 mm
Width2-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno data2x 8-pin

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 GB16 GB
Memory bus width384 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed1270 MHz2250 MHz
Memory bandwidth243.8 GB/s576.0 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 Connectors6x mini-DisplayPort, 1x SDI1x HDMI 2.1a, 2x DisplayPort 2.1, 1x USB Type-C
HDMI-+

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_1)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model5.16.7
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.22.2
Vulkan1.2.1311.3

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
−600%
210
+600%
1440p18−21
−639%
133
+639%
4K12−14
−558%
79
+558%

FPS performance in popular games

Full HD
Low Preset

Cyberpunk 2077 208
+0%
208
+0%

Full HD
Medium Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 140−150
+0%
140−150
+0%
Assassin's Creed Valhalla 120−130
+0%
120−130
+0%
Battlefield 5 220−230
+0%
220−230
+0%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 110−120
+0%
110−120
+0%
Cyberpunk 2077 184
+0%
184
+0%
Far Cry 5 110−120
+0%
110−120
+0%
Far Cry New Dawn 160−170
+0%
160−170
+0%
Forza Horizon 4 230−240
+0%
230−240
+0%
Hitman 3 120−130
+0%
120−130
+0%
Horizon Zero Dawn 250−260
+0%
250−260
+0%
Metro Exodus 150−160
+0%
150−160
+0%
Red Dead Redemption 2 120−130
+0%
120−130
+0%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 280−290
+0%
280−290
+0%
Watch Dogs: Legion 150−160
+0%
150−160
+0%

Full HD
High Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 140−150
+0%
140−150
+0%
Assassin's Creed Valhalla 120−130
+0%
120−130
+0%
Battlefield 5 220−230
+0%
220−230
+0%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 110−120
+0%
110−120
+0%
Cyberpunk 2077 158
+0%
158
+0%
Far Cry 5 110−120
+0%
110−120
+0%
Far Cry New Dawn 160−170
+0%
160−170
+0%
Forza Horizon 4 230−240
+0%
230−240
+0%
Hitman 3 120−130
+0%
120−130
+0%
Horizon Zero Dawn 250−260
+0%
250−260
+0%
Metro Exodus 150−160
+0%
150−160
+0%
Red Dead Redemption 2 120−130
+0%
120−130
+0%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 403
+0%
403
+0%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 140−150
+0%
140−150
+0%
Watch Dogs: Legion 150−160
+0%
150−160
+0%

Full HD
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 140−150
+0%
140−150
+0%
Assassin's Creed Valhalla 120−130
+0%
120−130
+0%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 110−120
+0%
110−120
+0%
Cyberpunk 2077 148
+0%
148
+0%
Far Cry 5 110−120
+0%
110−120
+0%
Forza Horizon 4 230−240
+0%
230−240
+0%
Hitman 3 120−130
+0%
120−130
+0%
Horizon Zero Dawn 294
+0%
294
+0%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 353
+0%
353
+0%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 209
+0%
209
+0%
Watch Dogs: Legion 150−160
+0%
150−160
+0%

Full HD
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2 120−130
+0%
120−130
+0%

1440p
High Preset

Battlefield 5 160−170
+0%
160−170
+0%
Far Cry New Dawn 110−120
+0%
110−120
+0%

1440p
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 80−85
+0%
80−85
+0%
Assassin's Creed Valhalla 85−90
+0%
85−90
+0%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 80−85
+0%
80−85
+0%
Cyberpunk 2077 98
+0%
98
+0%
Far Cry 5 80−85
+0%
80−85
+0%
Forza Horizon 4 270−280
+0%
270−280
+0%
Hitman 3 100−105
+0%
100−105
+0%
Horizon Zero Dawn 231
+0%
231
+0%
Metro Exodus 128
+0%
128
+0%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 252
+0%
252
+0%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 156
+0%
156
+0%
Watch Dogs: Legion 230−240
+0%
230−240
+0%

1440p
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2 110−120
+0%
110−120
+0%

4K
High Preset

Battlefield 5 85−90
+0%
85−90
+0%
Far Cry New Dawn 65−70
+0%
65−70
+0%
Hitman 3 60−65
+0%
60−65
+0%
Horizon Zero Dawn 220−230
+0%
220−230
+0%
Metro Exodus 100−110
+0%
100−110
+0%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 125
+0%
125
+0%

4K
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 55−60
+0%
55−60
+0%
Assassin's Creed Valhalla 50−55
+0%
50−55
+0%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 50−55
+0%
50−55
+0%
Cyberpunk 2077 45
+0%
45
+0%
Far Cry 5 50−55
+0%
50−55
+0%
Forza Horizon 4 110−120
+0%
110−120
+0%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 131
+0%
131
+0%
Watch Dogs: Legion 40−45
+0%
40−45
+0%

4K
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2 70−75
+0%
70−75
+0%

This is how FirePro D500 and RX 7900 GRE compete in popular games:

  • RX 7900 GRE is 600% faster in 1080p
  • RX 7900 GRE is 639% faster in 1440p
  • RX 7900 GRE is 558% faster in 4K

All in all, in popular games:

  • there's a draw in 72 tests (100%)

Pros & cons summary

Performance score 10.83 69.17
Recency 18 January 2014 27 July 2023
Maximum RAM amount 3 GB 16 GB
Chip lithography 28 nm 5 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 274 Watt 260 Watt

RX 7900 GRE has a 538.7% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 9 years, a 433.3% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 460% more advanced lithography process, and 5.4% lower power consumption.

The Radeon RX 7900 GRE is our recommended choice as it beats the FirePro D500 in performance tests.

Be aware that FirePro D500 is a workstation graphics card while Radeon RX 7900 GRE is a desktop one.

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

Vote for your favorite

Do you think we are right or mistaken in our choice? Vote by clicking "Like" button near your favorite graphics card.

AMD FirePro D500
FirePro D500
AMD Radeon RX 7900 GRE
Radeon RX 7900 GRE
Like
Like

Comparisons with similar GPUs

We selected several comparisons of graphics cards with performance close to those reviewed, providing you with more options to consider.

FirePro D500 FirePro D500
vs
FirePro W7000 FirePro W7000
RX 7900 GRE Radeon RX 7900 GRE
vs
RTX 3080 12 GB GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB
FirePro D500 FirePro D500
vs
Quadro K4200 Quadro K4200
FirePro D700 FirePro D700
vs
GTX 960A GeForce GTX 960A
FirePro D700 FirePro D700
vs
Iris Plus Graphics 940 Iris Plus Graphics 940
FirePro D700 FirePro D700
vs
Radeon 610M Radeon 610M
FirePro S7000 FirePro S7000
vs
GTX 780 6 GB GeForce GTX 780 6 GB
FirePro W5000 FirePro W5000
vs
RTX 3050 8 GB GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB
FirePro W9100 FirePro W9100
vs
RTX 5000 Ada Generation RTX 5000 Ada Generation
M1000M Quadro M1000M
vs
Jetson Orin Nano 4 GB Jetson Orin Nano 4 GB
FirePro W8100 FirePro W8100
vs
GTX 1050 GeForce GTX 1050
M1000M Quadro M1000M
vs
Jetson AGX Orin 64 GB Jetson AGX Orin 64 GB
FirePro W7100 FirePro W7100
vs
FirePro S7000 FirePro S7000

Community ratings

Here you can see the user ratings of the compared graphics cards, as well as rate them yourself.

4 20 votes

Rate FirePro D500 on a scale of 1 to 5:

  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
4.5 741 vote

Rate Radeon RX 7900 GRE on a scale of 1 to 5:

  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5

Questions & comments

Here you can ask a question about this comparison, agree or disagree with our judgements, or report an error or mismatch.