FirePro V7900 vs Quadro 5000

Place in performance ranking	592	552
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Value for money	0.25	2.22
Architecture	Fermi (2010−2014)	TeraScale 3 (2010−2013)
GPU code name	GF100	Cayman
Market segment	Workstation	Workstation
Release date	23 February 2011 (13 years old)	24 May 2011 (12 years old)
Launch price (MSRP)	$2,499	no data
Current price	$991 (0.4x MSRP)	$165

Value for money

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

FirePro V7900 has 788% better value for money than Quadro 5000.

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	352	1280
Core clock speed	513 MHz	725 MHz
Number of transistors	3,100 million	2,640 million
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	152 Watt	151 Watt
Texture fill rate	22.57	58.00
Floating-point performance	722.3 gflops	1,856.0 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	no data	PCIe 2.1 x16
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length	248 mm	279 mm
Width	2-slot	1-slot
Form factor	no data	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	2.5 GB	2 GB
Memory bus width	320 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	3000 MHz	5000 MHz
Memory bandwidth	120.0 GB/s	160 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	1x DVI, 2x DisplayPort	4x DisplayPort
StereoOutput3D	no data	1
DisplayPort count	no data	4
Dual-link DVI support	no data	1

API support

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

DirectX	12 (11_0)	11.2 (11_0)
Shader Model	5.1	5.0
OpenGL	4.6	4.4
OpenCL	1.1	1.2
Vulkan	N/A	N/A
CUDA	2.0	no data

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.

Quadro 5000 4.98

FirePro V7900 5.95
+19.5%

FirePro V7900 outperforms Quadro 5000 by 19% 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%

Quadro 5000 1929

FirePro V7900 2304
+19.4%

FirePro V7900 outperforms Quadro 5000 by 19% in Passmark.