AMD Radeon RX 580 (Laptop) vs AMD FirePro D500

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 580 (Laptop) and AMD FirePro D500 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 580 (Laptop)

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 3 month(s) later
  • Around 73% higher core clock speed: 1257 MHz vs 725 MHz
  • 2772.4x more texture fill rate: 192.96 GTexel/s vs 69.6 GTexel / s
  • Around 50% higher pipelines: 2304 vs 1536
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 28 nm
  • Around 48% lower typical power consumption: 185 Watt vs 274 Watt
  • 2.7x more maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 3 GB
  • Around 57% higher memory clock speed: 8000 MHz vs 5080 MHz
Launch date 18 April 2017 vs 18 January 2014
Core clock speed 1257 MHz vs 725 MHz
Texture fill rate 192.96 GTexel/s vs 69.6 GTexel / s
Pipelines 2304 vs 1536
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm vs 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 185 Watt vs 274 Watt
Maximum memory size 8 GB vs 3 GB
Memory clock speed 8000 MHz vs 5080 MHz

Reasons to consider the AMD FirePro D500

  • 359.2x better floating-point performance: 2,227 gflops vs 6.2 TFLOPs
Floating-point performance 2,227 gflops vs 6.2 TFLOPs

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 580 (Laptop)
GPU 2: AMD FirePro D500

Name AMD Radeon RX 580 (Laptop) AMD FirePro D500
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 3510
Geekbench - OpenCL 18062
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 49.776
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 1063.081
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 4.568
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 65.789
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 6020
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3685
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3349
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 6020
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3685
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3349

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon RX 580 (Laptop) AMD FirePro D500

Essentials

Architecture GCN 4.0 GCN 1.0
Code name Polaris 20 Tahiti
Design Radeon RX 500 Series
GCN generation 4th Gen
Launch date 18 April 2017 18 January 2014
Launch price (MSRP) $301.69
Place in performance rating 691 693
Price now $169.99
Type Desktop Workstation
Value for money (0-100) 62.57

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1340 MHz
Compute units 36
Core clock speed 1257 MHz 725 MHz
Floating-point performance 6.2 TFLOPs 2,227 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm 28 nm
Pipelines 2304 1536
Pixel fill rate 42.88 GP/s
Render output units 32
Stream Processors 2304
Texture fill rate 192.96 GTexel/s 69.6 GTexel / s
Texture Units 144
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 185 Watt 274 Watt
Transistor count 5,700 million 4,313 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs 6x mini-DisplayPort, 1x SDI
VGA

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Bridgeless CrossFire
Interface MXM-B (3.0) PCIe 3.0 x16
Laptop size large
Recommended system power (PSU) 500 Watt
Length 279 mm

API support

DirectX 12 12.0 (11_1)
OpenCL 2.0
OpenGL 4.5 4.5
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 3 GB
Memory bandwidth 256 GB/s 243.8 GB / s
Memory bus width 256 bit 384 Bit
Memory clock speed 8000 MHz 5080 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR5
Shared memory 0

Technologies

4K H264 Decode
4K H264 Encode
AMD Eyefinity
AMD Radeon™ Chill
AMD Radeon™ ReLive
AppAcceleration
CrossFire
FreeSync
H265/HEVC Decode
H265/HEVC Encode
HDMI 4K Support
LiquidVR
PowerTune
TrueAudio
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)
Video Code Engine (VCE)
Virtual Super Resolution (VSR)
VR Ready