FirePro D500 vs Radeon R9 390

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Aggregate performance score

We've compared Radeon R9 390 with FirePro D500, including specs and performance data.

R9 390
2015
0 MB GDDR5, 275 Watt
23.09
+113%

R9 390 outperforms D500 by a whopping 113% based on our aggregate benchmark results.

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking237422
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation11.63no data
Power efficiency6.062.85
ArchitectureGCN 2.0 (2013−2017)GCN 1.0 (2011−2020)
GPU code nameGrenadaTahiti
Market segmentDesktopWorkstation
Designreferenceno data
Release date18 June 2015 (9 years ago)18 January 2014 (10 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$329 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 cores25601536
Core clock speedno data725 MHz
Boost clock speed1000 MHzno data
Number of transistors6,200 million4,313 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)275 Watt274 Watt
Texture fill rate160.069.60
Floating-point processing power5.12 TFLOPS2.227 TFLOPS
ROPs6432
TMUs16096

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 supportPCIe 3.0no data
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x16
Length275 mm279 mm
Width2-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectors1 x 6-pin, 1 x 8-pinno data
Bridgeless CrossFire+-

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
High bandwidth memory (HBM)-no data
Maximum RAM amount0 MB3 GB
Memory bus width512 Bit384 Bit
Memory clock speed1000 MHz1270 MHz
Memory bandwidth384 GB/s243.8 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 Connectors2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort6x mini-DisplayPort, 1x SDI
Eyefinity+-
Number of Eyefinity displays6no data
HDMI+-
DisplayPort support+-

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

CrossFire+-
FreeSync+-
PowerTune+-
TrueAudio+-
VCE+-
DDMA audio+no data

API compatibility

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

DirectXDirectX® 1212 (11_1)
Shader Model6.35.1
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.01.2
Vulkan+1.2.131
Mantle+-

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 23.09 10.83
Recency 18 June 2015 18 January 2014
Power consumption (TDP) 275 Watt 274 Watt

R9 390 has a 113.2% higher aggregate performance score, and an age advantage of 1 year.

FirePro D500, on the other hand, has 0.4% lower power consumption.

The Radeon R9 390 is our recommended choice as it beats the FirePro D500 in performance tests.

Be aware that Radeon R9 390 is a desktop card while FirePro D500 is a workstation one.


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