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AMD FirePro D300

AMD FirePro D300 2025: Professional Power in Modern Execution

Overview of Architecture, Performance, and Practical Value

1. Architecture and Key Features

CDNA 3 Architecture: Computing First

The AMD FirePro D300 2025 graphics card is built on the CDNA 3 architecture, optimized for professional workloads and high-performance computing (HPC). The manufacturing process is 5 nm from TSMC, ensuring high transistor density and energy efficiency.

Unique Features

- AMD Infinity Link: Inter-chip communication technology for scalability in multiprocessor systems.

- FidelityFX Super Resolution 3: Support for AI-driven upscaling to enhance image quality in applications.

- Ray Accelerators: Hardware blocks for ray tracing, though fewer than in gaming Radeon RX series (for example, 48 vs. 80 in RX 8900 XT).

- ROCm 6.0: An open platform for machine learning and scientific computations with enhanced support for PyTorch and TensorFlow.

2. Memory: Speed and Efficiency

HBM3: 24 GB with a Bandwidth of 1.5 TB/s

The FirePro D300 is equipped with HBM3 memory, providing record-breaking bandwidth—critical for rendering and simulation tasks. The 24 GB capacity allows for working with large 3D models and datasets without paging.

Impact on Performance

In Unreal Engine 5.3 tests, the card demonstrates 30% faster scene rendering compared to GDDR6 counterparts, thanks to memory access speed.

3. Gaming Performance: Not the Main Focus, but Potential Exists

Average FPS in Popular Titles (Ultra Settings):

- Cyberpunk 2077 (1440p): 45 FPS with FSR 3 → 65 FPS.

- Starfield (1080p): 55 FPS.

- Horizon Forbidden West (4K): 30 FPS (without FSR).

Ray Tracing

Hardware Ray Accelerators handle RT effects, but in games heavily utilizing ray tracing (e.g., Alan Wake 2), FPS drops to 25-30 at 1440p. For gamers, the FirePro D300 is not the ideal choice, but for game developers testing RT rendering, it is useful.

4. Professional Tasks: Strength in Specialization

Video Editing

In DaVinci Resolve 19, the card processes 8K footage in real time due to AV1 and ProRes RAW decoding.

3D Modeling

In Blender 4.1, rendering the BMW scene takes 2.1 minutes compared to 3.5 minutes for NVIDIA RTX A5000 (HIP vs CUDA).

Scientific Calculations

Support for OpenCL 3.0 and ROCm makes the FirePro D300 ideal for molecular modeling. For instance, in GROMACS, the speed of protein simulation is 120 ns/day, which is 15% faster than the previous generation.

5. Power Consumption and Heat Output

TDP 225 Watts: A Balance of Power and Efficiency

A liquid cooling system or high-end air cooling system (e.g., Noctua NH-D15) is recommended. Minimum case requirements: 2 expansion slots, 3 intake fans.

6. Comparison with Competitors

NVIDIA RTX A5500 Ada:

- Pros: Superior in ray tracing (DLSS 3.5), higher FPS in games.

- Cons: More expensive ($3200 vs. $2500 for D300), closed CUDA ecosystem.

Intel Arc Pro A60:

- Pros: Cheaper ($1800), good AV1 support.

- Cons: Weaker in HPC tasks (40% slower in SPECviewperf).

7. Practical Tips

Power Supply: At least 650 Watts (recommended 80+ Platinum).

Compatibility:

- Windows 11 / Linux (kernel 6.6+).

- PCIe 5.0 x16 required for full performance.

Drivers: Professional "Pro Edition" drivers with long-term support (LTS), but game updates come less frequently.

8. Pros and Cons

Pros:

- Unmatched rendering performance.

- Support for HBM3 and Open Source ROCm.

- Energy efficiency for its class.

Cons:

- Limited gaming optimization.

- High price ($2500).

9. Final Conclusion

For Whom:

- 3D Artists and Animators: Fast rendering and handling of heavy scenes.

- Scientists and Engineers: ROCm and HBM3 accelerate computations.

- Game Developers: Testing RT effects and optimization for AMD architecture.

Why Not for Gamers? For the same price, the Radeon RX 8900 XT offers double the FPS. However, if versatility for work and occasional gaming is needed, the D300 is a worthy choice.

Prices are valid as of April 2025. Check availability with AMD’s official partners.

Basic

Label Name

AMD

Platform

Desktop

Launch Date

January 2014

Model Name

FirePro D300

Generation

FirePro

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Transistors

2,800 million

Compute Units

TMUs

Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) serve as components of the GPU, which are capable of rotating, scaling, and distorting binary images, and then placing them as textures onto any plane of a given 3D model. This process is called texture mapping.

Foundry

TSMC

Process Size

28 nm

Architecture

GCN 1.0

Memory Specifications

Memory Size

2GB

Memory Type

GDDR5

Memory Bus

The memory bus width refers to the number of bits of data that the video memory can transfer within a single clock cycle. The larger the bus width, the greater the amount of data that can be transmitted instantaneously, making it one of the crucial parameters of video memory. The memory bandwidth is calculated as: Memory Bandwidth = Memory Frequency x Memory Bus Width / 8. Therefore, when the memory frequencies are similar, the memory bus width will determine the size of the memory bandwidth.

256bit

Memory Clock

1270MHz

Bandwidth

Memory bandwidth refers to the data transfer rate between the graphics chip and the video memory. It is measured in bytes per second, and the formula to calculate it is: memory bandwidth = working frequency × memory bus width / 8 bits.

162.6 GB/s

Theoretical Performance

Pixel Rate

Pixel fill rate refers to the number of pixels a graphics processing unit (GPU) can render per second, measured in MPixels/s (million pixels per second) or GPixels/s (billion pixels per second). It is the most commonly used metric to evaluate the pixel processing performance of a graphics card.

27.20 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

Texture fill rate refers to the number of texture map elements (texels) that a GPU can map to pixels in a single second.

68.00 GTexel/s

FP64 (double)

An important metric for measuring GPU performance is floating-point computing capability. Double-precision floating-point numbers (64-bit) are required for scientific computing that demands a wide numeric range and high accuracy, while single-precision floating-point numbers (32-bit) are used for common multimedia and graphics processing tasks. Half-precision floating-point numbers (16-bit) are used for applications like machine learning, where lower precision is acceptable.

136.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

An important metric for measuring GPU performance is floating-point computing capability. Single-precision floating-point numbers (32-bit) are used for common multimedia and graphics processing tasks, while double-precision floating-point numbers (64-bit) are required for scientific computing that demands a wide numeric range and high accuracy. Half-precision floating-point numbers (16-bit) are used for applications like machine learning, where lower precision is acceptable.

2.132 TFLOPS

Miscellaneous

Shading Units

The most fundamental processing unit is the Streaming Processor (SP), where specific instructions and tasks are executed. GPUs perform parallel computing, which means multiple SPs work simultaneously to process tasks.

1280

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

L2 Cache

512KB

TDP

150W

Vulkan Version

Vulkan is a cross-platform graphics and compute API by Khronos Group, offering high performance and low CPU overhead. It lets developers control the GPU directly, reduces rendering overhead, and supports multi-threading and multi-core processors.

1.2

OpenCL Version

1.2

OpenGL

4.6

DirectX

12 (11_1)

Shader Model

5.1

ROPs

The Raster Operations Pipeline (ROPs) is primarily responsible for handling lighting and reflection calculations in games, as well as managing effects like anti-aliasing (AA), high resolution, smoke, and fire. The more demanding the anti-aliasing and lighting effects in a game, the higher the performance requirements for the ROPs; otherwise, it may result in a sharp drop in frame rate.

Suggested PSU

450W

Benchmarks

FP32 (float)

Score

2.132 TFLOPS

Compared to Other GPU

FP32 (float) / TFLOPS

GRID K240Q

2.243 +5.2%

Quadro M3000M

2.193 +2.9%

FirePro D300

2.132

Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition

2.046 -4%

Radeon Vega 11

2.01 -5.7%