FirePro V5800 vs Radeon HD 6990

If you are going to buy a new graphics card and are choosing between FirePro V5800 and Radeon HD 6990, there are a couple of things to consider. Cards with more VRAM in general perform better and allow you to play on higher graphics settings. Size also makes a difference. A model with a large heatsink can occupy up to three expansion slots on a motherboard. Be sure you have enough room in your PC case. When comparing GPUs with different architectures, more processing cores and even higher TFLOPS will not always translate to better performance. To help you decide which GPU you need, we have measured frame rates in a number of popular games. For more on how the FirePro V5800 stacks up against Radeon HD 6990, check out specs charts below.

Main Specs

  FirePro V5800 Radeon HD 6990
Power consumption (TDP) 74 Watt 375 Watt
Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors None 2x 8-pin
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 2 GB
Display Connectors 1x DVI, 2x DisplayPort 1x DVI, 4x mini-DisplayPort
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  • Radeon HD 6990 has 406% more power consumption, than FirePro V5800.
  • Both video cards are using PCIe 2.0 x16 interface connection to a motherboard.
  • Radeon HD 6990 has 1 GB more memory, than FirePro V5800.
  • Both cards are used in Desktops.
  • FirePro V5800 is build with TeraScale 2 architecture, and Radeon HD 6990 - with TeraScale 3.
  • Core clock speed of Radeon HD 6990 is 140 MHz higher, than FirePro V5800.
  • FirePro V5800 and Radeon HD 6990 are manufactured by 40 nm process technology.
  • Radeon HD 6990 is 66 mm longer, than FirePro V5800.
  • Memory clock speed of Radeon HD 6990 is 1000 MHz higher, than FirePro V5800.

Game benchmarks

high / 1080p 6−7 14−16
ultra / 1080p 4−5 9−10
QHD / 1440p 0−1 3−4
low / 720p 16−18 30−35
medium / 1080p 7−8 18−20
The average gaming FPS of Radeon HD 6990 in Assassin's Creed Odyssey is 137% more, than FirePro V5800.

Full Specs

  FirePro V5800 Radeon HD 6990
Architecture TeraScale 2 TeraScale 3
Code name Juniper Antilles
Type Workstation Desktop
Release date 26 April 2010 8 March 2011
Pipelines 800 1536
Core clock speed 690 MHz 830 MHz
Transistor count 1,040 million 2,640 million
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 40 nm
Texture fill rate 27.60 79.68
Floating-point performance 1,104.0 gflops 2x 2,549.8 gflops
Length 229 mm 295 mm
Memory bus width 128 Bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 4000 MHz 5000 MHz
Memory bandwidth 64 GB/s 160.0 GB/s
DirectX 11.2 (11_0) 11.2 (11_0)
Shader Model 5.0 5.0
OpenGL 4.4 4.4
OpenCL 1.2 1.2
Vulkan N/A N/A
Bitcoin / BTC (SHA256) 265 Mh/s
Ethereum / ETH (DaggerHashimoto) 24 Mh/s
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