FirePro R5000 vs V7900

Place in performance ranking	552	524
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Value for money	2.21	0.97
Architecture	TeraScale 3 (2010−2013)	GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GPU code name	Cayman	Pitcairn
Market segment	Workstation	Workstation
Release date	24 May 2011 (12 years old)	25 February 2013 (11 years old)
Launch price (MSRP)	no data	$1,099
Current price	$165	$500 (0.5x MSRP)

Value for money

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

FirePro V7900 has 128% better value for money than FirePro R5000.

Technical specs

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 cores	1280	768
Core clock speed	725 MHz	825 MHz
Number of transistors	2,640 million	2,800 million
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	151 Watt	350 Watt
Texture fill rate	58.00	39.60
Floating-point performance	1,856.0 gflops	1,267 gflops

Size and 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).

Bus support	PCIe 2.1 x16	PCIe 3.0
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
Length	279 mm	279 mm
Width	1-slot	1-slot
Form factor	full height / full length	full height / full length
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin	1x 6-pin

Memory

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	GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	2 GB
Memory bus width	256 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	5000 MHz	3200 MHz
Memory bandwidth	160 GB/s	102.4 GB/s

Video outputs and ports

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 Connectors	4x DisplayPort	2x mini-DisplayPort
StereoOutput3D	1	no data
DisplayPort count	4	no data
Dual-link DVI support	1	1

API support

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

DirectX	11.2 (11_0)	12 (11_1)
Shader Model	5.0	5.1
OpenGL	4.4	4.6
OpenCL	1.2	1.2
Vulkan	N/A	1.2.131

Synthetic benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmark performance comparison. 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.

FirePro V7900 5.95

FirePro R5000 6.83
+14.8%

R5000 outperforms V7900 by 15% based on our aggregated benchmark results.

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%

FirePro V7900 2304

FirePro R5000 2646
+14.8%

R5000 outperforms V7900 by 15% in Passmark.