RTX A1000 Mobile vs FirePro V5900

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Aggregate performance score

FirePro V5900
2011
2 GB GDDR5, 75 Watt
3.26

RTX A1000 Mobile outperforms FirePro V5900 by a whopping 608% based on our aggregate benchmark results.

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in performance ranking703221
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation1.15no data
ArchitectureTeraScale 3 (2010−2013)Ampere (2020−2022)
GPU code nameCaymanGA107
Market segmentWorkstationLaptop
Release date24 May 2011 (13 years ago)30 March 2022 (2 years ago)
Current price$89 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Detailed specifications

General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores5122048
Core clock speed600 MHzno data
Boost clock speedno data1140 MHz
Number of transistors2,640 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology40 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)75 Watt95 Watt (35 - 95 Watt TGP)
Texture fill rate19.2072.96
Floating-point performance614.4 gflopsno data

Form factor & compatibility

Information on FirePro V5900 and RTX A1000 Mobile compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop video cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility). For notebook video cards it's notebook size, connection slot and bus, if the video card is inserted into a slot instead of being soldered to the notebook motherboard.

Laptop sizeno datamedium sized
InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x8
Length230 mmno data
Width1-slotno data
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno data

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR5GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount2 GB4 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed2000 MHz14000 MHz
Memory bandwidth64 GB/s176.0 GB/s
Shared memoryno data-

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors1x DVIPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

List of supported graphics and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX11.2 (11_0)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model5.06.7
OpenGL4.44.6
OpenCL1.23.0
VulkanN/A1.3
CUDAno data8.6

Gaming performance

Let's see how good the compared graphics cards are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.

Average FPS across all PC games

Here are the average frames per second in a large set of popular games across different resolutions:

Full HD9−10
−656%
68
+656%
1440p3−4
−800%
27
+800%

Pros & cons summary


Performance score 3.26 23.07
Recency 24 May 2011 30 March 2022
Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 4 GB
Chip lithography 40 nm 8 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 75 Watt 95 Watt

The RTX A1000 Mobile is our recommended choice as it beats the FirePro V5900 in performance tests.

Be aware that FirePro V5900 is a workstation card while RTX A1000 Mobile is a notebook one.


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