RTX A5000 vs FirePro V5900

Place in the ranking	818	51
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Power efficiency	3.03	18.43
Architecture	TeraScale 3 (2010−2013)	Ampere (2020−2025)
GPU code name	Cayman	GA102
Market segment	Workstation	Workstation
Release date	24 May 2011 (15 years ago)	12 April 2021 (5 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Real power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially if overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	512	8192
Core clock speed	600 MHz	1170 MHz
Boost clock speed	no data	1695 MHz
Number of transistors	2,640 million	28,300 million
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	75 Watt	230 Watt
Texture fill rate	19.20	433.9
Floating-point processing power	0.6144 TFLOPS	27.77 TFLOPS
ROPs	32	96
TMUs	32	256
Tensor Cores	no data	256
Ray Tracing Cores	no data	64
L1 Cache	128 KB	8 MB
L2 Cache	512 KB	6 MB

Form factor & compatibility

Information on 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	PCIe 4.0 x16
Length	230 mm	267 mm
Width	1-slot	2-slot
Supplementary power connectors	None	1x 8-pin

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 type	GDDR5	GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	24 GB
Memory bus width	256 Bit	384 Bit
Memory clock speed	500 MHz	2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth	64 GB/s	768.0 GB/s
Resizable BAR	-	+

Connectivity and outputs

This section shows the types and number of video connectors on each GPU. The data applies specifically to desktop reference models (for example, NVIDIA’s Founders Edition). OEM partners often modify both the number and types of ports. On notebook GPUs, video‐output options are determined by the laptop’s design rather than the graphics chip itself.

Display Connectors

1x DVI

4x DisplayPort 1.4a

API and SDK support

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX	11.2 (11_0)	12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model	5.0	6.7
OpenGL	4.4	4.6
OpenCL	1.2	3.0
Vulkan	N/A	1.3
CUDA	-	8.6
DLSS	-	+

Synthetic benchmarks

Non-gaming benchmark results comparison. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.

Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark score.

FirePro V5900 2.95

RTX A5000 55.04
+1766%

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 1187
Samples: 152

RTX A5000 22889
+1828%

Samples: 929

Gaming performance

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

Pros & cons summary

Performance score	2.95	55.04
Recency	24 May 2011	12 April 2021
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	24 GB
Chip lithography	40 nm	8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	75 Watt	230 Watt

FirePro V5900 has 207% lower power consumption.

RTX A5000, on the other hand, has a 1766% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 9 years, a 1100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 400% more advanced lithography process.

The RTX A5000 is our recommended choice as it beats the FirePro V5900 in performance tests.