FirePro V5900: specs and benchmarks

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FirePro V5900 provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at 2.79% of a leader's which is RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell.

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 0.5 GHz are supplied, and together with 256 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 64 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is a single-slot graphics 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.

Primary details

Some basic facts about FirePro V5900: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in the ranking801
Place by popularitynot in top-100
Power efficiency3.00of 100.00 (Radeon 890M)
ArchitectureTeraScale 3 (2010−2013)
GPU code nameCayman
Market segmentWorkstation
Release date24 May 2011 (14 years ago)

Detailed specifications

FirePro V5900's specs 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 cores512of 960 (GeForce GTX 660)
Core clock speed600 MHzof 980 (GeForce GT 755M SLI)
Number of transistors2,640 millionof 100,000 million (Data Center GPU Max 1100)
Manufacturing process technology40 nmof 0.003 MB (Arc Graphics 140V)
Power consumption (TDP)75 Wattof 235 (FirePro S9150)
Texture fill rate19.20of 1,968.0 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server)
Floating-point processing power0.6144 TFLOPSof 126 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server)
ROPs32of 512 (Moore Threads MTT S4000)
TMUs32of 896 (Data Center GPU Max 1350)
L1 Cache128 KBof 64 MB (Data Center GPU Max 1550)
L2 Cache512 KBof 408 MB (Data Center GPU Max 1350)

Form factor & compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of FirePro V5900 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).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16
Length230 mm
Width1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNone

VRAM capacity and type

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 typeGDDR5
Maximum RAM amount2 GBof 288 GB (Radeon Instinct MI325X)
Memory bus width256 Bitof 384 (GeForce GTX 980 Ti)
Memory clock speed500 MHzof 16384000 MB (GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile)
Memory bandwidth64 GB/sof 983040 MB (GeForce RTX 5080)

Connectivity and outputs

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 Connectors1x DVI

API and SDK support

APIs supported by FirePro V5900, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX11.2 (11_0)
Shader Model5.0
OpenGL4.4of 4.6 (RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell)
OpenCL1.2
VulkanN/A

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of FirePro V5900. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.


Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark score.

FirePro V5900
2.79

Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark. 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.

FirePro V5900 1232
Samples: 149

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.

Closest competitors

FirePro V5900's performance relative to its closest rivals among server graphics cards.


Tesla M2070-Q 105.73
FirePro V5900 100
GRID K340 97.85
NVS 810 96.42

NVIDIA equivalent

According to our data, the closest NVIDIA alternative to FirePro V5900 is Quadro FX 5800, which is slower by 2% and lower by 3 positions in our ranking.

Here are some closest NVIDIA rivals to FirePro V5900:

Quadro K2000 127.96
Quadro 4000 119.35
Tesla M2070-Q 105.73
FirePro V5900 100
GRID K340 97.85
NVS 810 96.42

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