FirePro V5900 vs Quadro P400

Place in performance ranking	639	700
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Value for money	0.79	1.15
Architecture	Pascal (2016−2021)	TeraScale 3 (2010−2013)
GPU code name	GP107	Cayman
Market segment	Workstation	Workstation
Release date	7 February 2017 (7 years old)	24 May 2011 (12 years old)
Launch price (MSRP)	$119.99	no data
Current price	$73 (0.6x MSRP)	$89

Value for money

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

FirePro V5900 has 46% better value for money than Quadro P400.

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	256	512
Core clock speed	1228 MHz	600 MHz
Boost clock speed	1252 MHz	no data
Number of transistors	3,300 million	2,640 million
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	30 Watt	75 Watt
Texture fill rate	20.03	19.20
Floating-point performance	679.9 gflops	614.4 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).

Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length	145 mm	230 mm
Width	1-slot	1-slot
Supplementary power connectors	None	None

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	64 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	4008 MHz	2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth	32.06 GB/s	64 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

3x mini-DisplayPort

1x DVI

API support

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

DirectX	12 (12_1)	11.2 (11_0)
Shader Model	6.4	5.0
OpenGL	4.6	4.4
OpenCL	1.2	1.2
Vulkan	1.2.131	N/A
CUDA	6.1	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 P400 4.23
+29%

FirePro V5900 3.28

Quadro P400 outperforms FirePro V5900 by 29% 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 P400 1637
+29%

FirePro V5900 1269

Quadro P400 outperforms FirePro V5900 by 29% in Passmark.