FirePro V5800 vs Radeon HD 7870

Find out if it is worth upgrading your current GPU setup by comparing FirePro V5800 and Radeon HD 7870. Here you can take a closer look at graphics cards specs, such as core clock speed, memory type and size, display connectors, etc. The price, overall benchmark and gaming performances are usually defining factors when it comes to choosing between FirePro V5800 and Radeon HD 7870. Make sure that the graphics card has compatible dimensions and will properly fit in your new or current computer case. Also these graphics cards may have different system power recommendations, so take that into consideration and upgrade your PSU if necessary.

Main Specs

  FirePro V5800 Radeon HD 7870
Power consumption (TDP) 74 Watt 175 Watt
Interface PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors None
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 2 GB
Display Connectors 1x DVI, 2x DisplayPort
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  • Radeon HD 7870 has 136% more power consumption, than FirePro V5800.
  • Radeon HD 7870 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 7870 - with GCN.
  • Core clock speed of Radeon HD 7870 is 310 MHz higher, than FirePro V5800.
  • FirePro V5800 is manufactured by 40 nm process technology, and Radeon HD 7870 - by 28 nm process technology.
  • Memory clock speed of Radeon HD 7870 is 800 MHz higher, than FirePro V5800.

Game benchmarks

high / 1080p 6−7 24−27
ultra / 1080p 4−5 14−16
QHD / 1440p 0−1 9−10
4K / 2160p 6−7
low / 720p 16−18 45−50
medium / 1080p 7−8 30−33
The average gaming FPS of Radeon HD 7870 in Assassin's Creed Odyssey is 262% more, than FirePro V5800.

Full Specs

  FirePro V5800 Radeon HD 7870
Architecture TeraScale 2 GCN
Code name Juniper Pitcairn XT
Type Workstation Desktop
Release date 26 April 2010 5 March 2012
Pipelines 800 1280
Core clock speed 690 MHz 1000 MHz
Transistor count 1,040 million 2800 Million
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 28 nm
Texture fill rate 27.60
Floating-point performance 1,104.0 gflops
Length 229 mm
Memory bus width 128 Bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 4000 MHz 4800 MHz
Memory bandwidth 64 GB/s
Shared memory -
DirectX 11.2 (11_0) DirectX 11.1, Shader 5.1
Shader Model 5.0
OpenGL 4.4
OpenCL 1.2
Vulkan N/A
Monero / XMR (CryptoNight) 0.39 kh/s
Eyefinity +
Decred / DCR (Decred) 0.63 Gh/s
Ethereum / ETH (DaggerHashimoto) 16.6 Mh/s
Zcash / ZEC (Equihash) 145 Sol/s
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