FirePro V5900 vs Radeon HD 7850

If you are going to buy a new graphics card and are choosing between FirePro V5900 and Radeon HD 7850, 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 V5900 stacks up against Radeon HD 7850, check out specs charts below.

Main Specs

  FirePro V5900 Radeon HD 7850
Power consumption (TDP) 75 Watt 225 Watt
Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors None 1x 6-pin
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 2 GB
Display Connectors 1x DVI 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
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  • Radeon HD 7850 has 200% more power consumption, than FirePro V5900.
  • FirePro V5900 is connected by PCIe 2.0 x16, and Radeon HD 7850 uses PCIe 3.0 x16 interface.
  • FirePro V5900 and Radeon HD 7850 have maximum RAM of 2 GB.
  • Both cards are used in Desktops.
  • FirePro V5900 is build with TeraScale 3 architecture, and Radeon HD 7850 - with GCN 1.0.
  • FirePro V5900 is manufactured by 40 nm process technology, and Radeon HD 7850 - by 28 nm process technology.
  • FirePro V5900 is 20 mm longer, than Radeon HD 7850.
  • Memory clock speed of FirePro V5900 is 800 MHz higher, than Radeon HD 7850.

Game benchmarks

high / 1080p 4−5 18−20
ultra / 1080p 2−3 10−12
QHD / 1440p 1−2 5−6
4K / 2160p 4−5
low / 720p 14−16 35−40
medium / 1080p 7−8 24−27
The average gaming FPS of Radeon HD 7850 in Assassin's Creed Odyssey is 216% more, than FirePro V5900.

Full Specs

  FirePro V5900 Radeon HD 7850
Architecture TeraScale 3 GCN 1.0
Code name Cayman Pitcairn
Type Workstation Desktop
Release date 24 May 2011 5 March 2012
Pipelines 512 1024
Core clock speed 600 MHz
Boost Clock 1000 MHz
Transistor count 2,640 million 2,800 million
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 28 nm
Texture fill rate 19.20 55.04
Floating-point performance 614.4 gflops 1,761 gflops
Length 230 mm 210 mm
Memory bus width 256 Bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 2000 MHz 1200 MHz
Memory bandwidth 64 GB/s 153.6 GB/s
DirectX 11.2 (11_0)
Shader Model 5.0 5.1
OpenGL 4.4 4.6
OpenCL 1.2 1.2
Vulkan N/A
FreeSync +
Bus support PCIe 2.1 x16
HDMI +
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