FirePro V5900 vs Quadro 6000

If you are going to buy a new graphics card and are choosing between FirePro V5900 and Quadro 6000, 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 Quadro 6000, check out specs charts below.

Main Specs

  FirePro V5900 Quadro 6000
Power consumption (TDP) 75 Watt 204 Watt
Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors None 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 6 GB
Display Connectors 1x DVI 1x DVI, 2x DisplayPort, 1x S-Video
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  • Quadro 6000 has 172% more power consumption, than FirePro V5900.
  • Both video cards are using PCIe 2.0 x16 interface connection to a motherboard.
  • Quadro 6000 has 4 GB more memory, than FirePro V5900.
  • Both cards are used in Desktops.
  • FirePro V5900 is build with TeraScale 3 architecture, and Quadro 6000 - with Fermi.
  • Core clock speed of FirePro V5900 is 26 MHz higher, than Quadro 6000.
  • FirePro V5900 and Quadro 6000 are manufactured by 40 nm process technology.
  • Quadro 6000 is 18 mm longer, than FirePro V5900.
  • Memory clock speed of Quadro 6000 is 988 MHz higher, than FirePro V5900.

Game benchmarks

high / 1080p 4−5 14−16
ultra / 1080p 2−3 8−9
QHD / 1440p 1−2 3−4
low / 720p 14−16 27−30
medium / 1080p 7−8 16−18
The average gaming FPS of Quadro 6000 in Assassin's Creed Odyssey is 133% more, than FirePro V5900.

Full Specs

  FirePro V5900 Quadro 6000
Architecture TeraScale 3 Fermi
Code name Cayman GF100
Type Workstation Workstation
Release date 24 May 2011 10 December 2010
Pipelines 512 448
Core clock speed 600 MHz 574 MHz
Transistor count 2,640 million 3,100 million
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 40 nm
Texture fill rate 19.20 32.14
Floating-point performance 614.4 gflops 1,027.7 gflops
Length 230 mm 248 mm
Memory bus width 256 Bit 384 Bit
Memory clock speed 2000 MHz 2988 MHz
Memory bandwidth 64 GB/s 143.4 GB/s
DirectX 11.2 (11_0) 12 (11_0)
Shader Model 5.0 5.1
OpenGL 4.4 4.6
OpenCL 1.2 1.1
Vulkan N/A N/A
CUDA 2.0
Bitcoin / BTC (SHA256) 66 Mh/s 91 Mh/s
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