FirePro V7900: specs and benchmarks
Aggregated performance score
It provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at 5.95% of a leader's which is GeForce RTX 4090.
Summary
AMD started FirePro V7900 sales 24 May 2011. This is a TeraScale 3 architecture desktop card based on 40 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at designers. 2 GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 5 GHz are supplied, and together with 256 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 160 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is single-slot card attached via PCIe 2.0 x16 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 279 mm. 1x 6-pin power connector is required, and power consumption is at 151 Watt.
Primary Details
Some basic facts about FirePro V7900: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in performance ranking | 552 | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Cost-Effectiveness Evaluation | 2.23 | |
| Architecture | TeraScale 3 (2010−2013) | |
| GPU code name | Cayman | |
| Market segment | Workstation | |
| Release date | 24 May 2011 (12 years ago) | |
| Current price | $165 | of 168889 (A100 PCIe 80 GB) |
Cost-Effectiveness Evaluation
Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.
Detailed Specifications
FirePro V7900's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of FirePro V7900's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 1280 | of 20480 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT) |
| Core clock speed | 725 MHz | of 2610 (Radeon RX 6500 XT) |
| Number of transistors | 2,640 million | of 14400 (GeForce GTX 1070 SLI Mobile) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 40 nm | of 4 (Radeon 780M) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 151 Watt | of 2400 (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem) |
| Texture fill rate | 58.00 | of 969.9 (H100 SXM5 96 GB) |
| Floating-point performance | 1,856.0 gflops | of 16384 (Radeon Pro Duo) |
Form Factor & Compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of FirePro V7900 and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).
| Bus support | PCIe 2.1 x16 | |
| Interface | PCIe 2.0 x16 | |
| Length | 279 mm | |
| Width | 1-slot | |
| Form factor | full height / full length | |
| Supplementary power connectors | 1x 6-pin |
| Memory type | GDDR5 | |
| Maximum RAM amount | 2 GB | of 192 (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
| Memory bus width | 256 Bit | of 8192 (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory clock speed | 5000 MHz | of 23000 (GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER) |
| Memory bandwidth | 160 GB/s | of 3276 (Aldebaran) |
Connectivity and Outputs
Types and number of video connectors present on FirePro V7900. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.
| Display Connectors | 4x DisplayPort | |
| StereoOutput3D | 1 | |
| DisplayPort count | 4 | |
| Dual-link DVI support | 1 |
API Compatibility
APIs supported by FirePro V7900, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 11.2 (11_0) | |
| Shader Model | 5.0 | |
| OpenGL | 4.4 | of 4.6 (GeForce RTX 4090) |
| OpenCL | 1.2 | |
| Vulkan | N/A |
Benchmark performance
Synthetic benchmark performance of FirePro V7900. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.
Combined synthetic benchmark score
This is our combined benchmark performance score. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.
Passmark
This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark, part of Passmark PerformanceTest suite. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.
Benchmark coverage: 25%
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NVIDIA equivalent
According to our data, the closest NVIDIA alternative to FirePro V7900 is Quadro K620, which is slower by 3% and lower by 8 positions in our ranking.
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