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AMD FirePro V5900: specs and benchmarks
Price now
145$
Games supported
60%
- Interface PCIe 2.0 x16
- Core clock speed 600 MHz
- Max video memory 2 GB
- Memory type GDDR5
- Memory clock speed 2000 MHz
- Maximum resolution
Year of release
2011
Performance
3.15
Summary
AMD started FirePro V5900 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 2 GHz are supplied, and together with 256 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 64 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is single-slot card attached via PCIe 2.0 x16 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 230 mm. No additional power connector is required, and power consumption is at 75 Watt.
It provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at
3.15%
of a leader's which is NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090.
General info
Some basic facts about FirePro V5900: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in performance rating | 648 | |
| Value for money | 0.31 | |
| Architecture | TeraScale 3 (2010−2013) | |
| GPU code name | Cayman | |
| Market segment | Workstation | |
| Release date | 24 May 2011 (11 years old) | |
| Current price | $145 | of 49999 (A100 SXM4) |
Value for money
Technical specs
FirePro V5900's general performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of FirePro V5900's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 512 | of 20480 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT) |
| Core clock speed | 600 MHz | of 2610 (Radeon RX 6500 XT) |
| Number of transistors | 2,640 million | of 14400 (GeForce GTX 1080 SLI Mobile) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 40 nm | of 4 (GeForce RTX 4080 Ti) |
| Thermal design power (TDP) | 75 Watt | of 2400 (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem) |
| Texture fill rate | 19.20 | of 969.9 (H100 SXM5 96 GB) |
| Floating-point performance | 614.4 gflops | of 16384 (Radeon Pro Duo) |
Dimensions and compatibility
Information on FirePro V5900's 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 2.0 x16 | |
| Length | 230 mm | |
| Width | 1-slot | |
| Supplementary power connectors | None |
Memory
Parameters of memory installed on FirePro V5900: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.
| Memory type | GDDR5 | |
| Maximum RAM amount | 2 GB | of 128 (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory bus width | 256 Bit | of 8192 (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory clock speed | 2000 MHz | of 22400 (GeForce RTX 4080) |
| Memory bandwidth | 64 GB/s | of 14400 (Radeon R7 M260) |
Video outputs and ports
Types and number of video connectors present on FirePro V5900. 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 | 1x DVI |
API support
APIs supported by FirePro V5900, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 11.2 (11_0) | |
| Shader Model | 5.0 | |
| OpenGL | 4.4 | of 4.6 (GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile) |
| OpenCL | 1.2 | |
| Vulkan | N/A |
Benchmark performance
Synthetic benchmark performance of FirePro V5900. Overall performance is measured in points in 0-100 range.
Overall score
This is our combined benchmark performance rating. 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
Passmark
This is probably the most ubiquitous benchmark, part of Passmark PerformanceTest suite. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various 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: 24%
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Mining hashrates
Cryptocurrency mining performance of FirePro V5900. Usually measured in megahashes per second.
| Bitcoin / BTC (SHA256) | 66 Mh/s |
Gaming performance
Let's see how good FirePro V5900 is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in frames per second. Comparisons with game system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect reality inaccurately.
Relative perfomance
Overall FirePro V5900 performance compared to nearest competitors among server video cards.
NVIDIA equivalent
According to our data, the closest equivalent to FirePro V5900 by NVIDIA is Quadro FX 5800, which is slower by 2% and lower by 7 positions in our rating.
Here are some closest NVIDIA rivals to FirePro V5900:
Similar GPUs
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