FirePro V7900 vs Radeon R9 380

If you are going to buy a new graphics card and are choosing between FirePro V7900 and Radeon R9 380, 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 R9 380, check out specs charts below.

Main Specs

  FirePro V7900 Radeon R9 380
Power consumption (TDP) 151 Watt 190 Watt
Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors 1x 6-pin 2 x 6-pin
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 4 GB
Display Connectors 4x DisplayPort 2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
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  • Radeon R9 380 has 25% more power consumption, than FirePro V7900.
  • FirePro V7900 is connected by PCIe 2.0 x16, and Radeon R9 380 uses PCIe 3.0 x16 interface.
  • Radeon R9 380 has 2 GB more memory, than FirePro V7900.
  • Both cards are used in Desktops.
  • FirePro V7900 is build with TeraScale 3 architecture, and Radeon R9 380 - with GCN.
  • FirePro V7900 is manufactured by 40 nm process technology, and Radeon R9 380 - by 28 nm process technology.
  • FirePro V7900 is 58 mm longer, than Radeon R9 380.
  • Memory clock speed of FirePro V7900 is 4030 MHz higher, than Radeon R9 380.

Game benchmarks

high / 1080p 10−12 35−40
ultra / 1080p 6−7 21−24
QHD / 1440p 1−2 16−18
4K / 2160p 10−11
low / 720p 24−27 60−65
medium / 1080p 14−16 40−45
The average gaming FPS of Radeon R9 380 in Assassin's Creed Odyssey is 227% more, than FirePro V7900.

Full Specs

  FirePro V7900 Radeon R9 380
Architecture TeraScale 3 GCN
Code name Cayman Tonga Pro
Type Workstation Desktop
Release date 24 May 2011 26 June 2015
Pipelines 1280 1792
Core clock speed 725 MHz
Boost Clock 970 MHz
Transistor count 2,640 million 5,000 million
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 28 nm
Texture fill rate 58.00 108.6
Floating-point performance 1,856.0 gflops 3,476 gflops
Length 279 mm 221 mm
Memory bus width 256 Bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 5000 MHz 970 MHz
Memory bandwidth 160 GB/s 182.4 GB/s
Shared memory -
DirectX 11.2 (11_0)
Shader Model 5.0 6.3
OpenGL 4.4 4.5
OpenCL 1.2 2.0
Vulkan N/A +
Monero / XMR (CryptoNight) 0.48 kh/s
FreeSync +
Bus support PCIe 2.1 x16 PCIe 3.0
HDMI +
Bitcoin / BTC (SHA256) 171 Mh/s 404 Mh/s
Eyefinity +
HD3D +
PowerTune +
TrueAudio +
ZeroCore +
Mantle +
Design reference
Bridgeless CrossFire +
Number of Eyefinity displays 6
DisplayPort support +
CrossFire +
VCE +
DDMA audio +
Decred / DCR (Decred) 0.66 Gh/s
Ethereum / ETH (DaggerHashimoto) 18 Mh/s
Zcash / ZEC (Equihash) 168.45 Sol/s
Compute units 28
Form factor full height / full length full height / full length / dual slot
StereoOutput3D +
DisplayPort count 4
Dual-link DVI support +
High bandwidth memory (HBM) -
LiquidVR +
FRTC +
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