FirePro D500 vs TITAN Xp

Place in the ranking	57	422
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	13.16	no data
Power efficiency	13.94	2.74
Architecture	Pascal (2016−2021)	GCN 1.0 (2011−2020)
GPU code name	GP102	Tahiti
Market segment	Desktop	Workstation
Release date	6 April 2017 (7 years ago)	18 January 2014 (10 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$1,199	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 cores	3840	1536
Core clock speed	1405 MHz	725 MHz
Boost clock speed	1582 MHz	no data
Number of transistors	11,800 million	4,313 million
Manufacturing process technology	16 nm	28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	250 Watt	274 Watt
Texture fill rate	379.7	69.60
Floating-point processing power	12.15 TFLOPS	2.227 TFLOPS
ROPs	96	32
TMUs	240	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	267 mm	279 mm
Width	2-slot	2-slot
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin + 1x 8-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	GDDR5X	GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount	12 GB	3 GB
Memory bus width	384 Bit	384 Bit
Memory clock speed	1426 MHz	1270 MHz
Memory bandwidth	547.6 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	1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort	6x mini-DisplayPort, 1x SDI
HDMI	+	-

API compatibility

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

DirectX	12 (12_1)	12 (11_1)
Shader Model	6.4	5.1
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
OpenCL	1.2	1.2
Vulkan	1.2.131	1.2.131
CUDA	6.1	-

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	50.34	10.83
Recency	6 April 2017	18 January 2014
Maximum RAM amount	12 GB	3 GB
Chip lithography	16 nm	28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	250 Watt	274 Watt

TITAN Xp has a 364.8% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 3 years, a 300% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 75% more advanced lithography process, and 9.6% lower power consumption.

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

Be aware that TITAN Xp 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.