FirePro V7900 vs Radeon HD 5850

If you are going to buy a new graphics card and are choosing between FirePro V7900 and Radeon HD 5850, 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 V7900 stacks up against Radeon HD 5850, check out specs charts below.

Main Specs

  FirePro V7900 Radeon HD 5850
Power consumption (TDP) 151 Watt 151 Watt
Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors 1x 6-pin 2x 6-pin
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 1 GB
Display Connectors 4x DisplayPort 2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
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  • Both graphics cards have the same power consumption of 151 Watt.
  • Both video cards are using PCIe 2.0 x16 interface connection to a motherboard.
  • FirePro V7900 has 1 GB more memory, than Radeon HD 5850.
  • Both cards are used in Desktops.
  • FirePro V7900 is build with TeraScale 3 architecture, and Radeon HD 5850 - with Terascale 2.
  • Both graphics cards have the same core clock speed.
  • FirePro V7900 and Radeon HD 5850 are manufactured by 40 nm process technology.
  • FirePro V7900 is 38 mm longer, than Radeon HD 5850.
  • Memory clock speed of FirePro V7900 is 3000 MHz higher, than Radeon HD 5850.

Game benchmarks

high / 1080p 10−12 9−10
ultra / 1080p 6−7 5−6
QHD / 1440p 1−2 0−1
low / 720p 24−27 21−24
medium / 1080p 14−16 12−14
The average gaming FPS of FirePro V7900 in Assassin's Creed Odyssey is 16% more, than Radeon HD 5850.

Full Specs

  FirePro V7900 Radeon HD 5850
Architecture TeraScale 3 Terascale 2
Code name Cayman Cypress
Type Workstation Desktop
Release date 24 May 2011 30 September 2009
Pipelines 1280 1440
Core clock speed 725 MHz 725 MHz
Transistor count 2,640 million 2,154 million
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 40 nm
Texture fill rate 58.00 52.20
Floating-point performance 1,856.0 gflops 2,088.0 gflops
Length 279 mm 241 mm
Memory bus width 256 Bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 5000 MHz 2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth 160 GB/s 128.0 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
Bus support PCIe 2.1 x16
Bitcoin / BTC (SHA256) 171 Mh/s
Form factor full height / full length
StereoOutput3D +
DisplayPort count 4
Dual-link DVI support +
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