GeForce RTX 5090 vs ATI FireGL V5100

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

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Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureR400 (2004−2008)Blackwell 2.0 (2025)
GPU code nameR423GB202
Market segmentWorkstationDesktop
Release date1 May 2004 (20 years ago)2025

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA coresno data21760
Core clock speed450 MHz2235 MHz
Boost clock speedno data2520 MHz
Number of transistors160 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology130 nm0 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data500 Watt
Texture fill rate5.4001,714
Floating-point processing powerno data109.7 TFLOPS
ROPs12192
TMUs12680
Tensor Coresno data680
Ray Tracing Coresno data170

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 1.0 x16PCIe 5.0 x16
Length211 mm304 mm
Width1-slot3-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNone1x 16-pin

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeDDRGDDR7
Maximum RAM amount128 MB32 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit512 Bit
Memory clock speed350 MHz1875 MHz
Memory bandwidth22.4 GB/s1.52 TB/s

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors2x DVI, 1x S-Video1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI-+

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX9.0b (9_2)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Modelno data6.8
OpenGL2.04.6
OpenCLN/A3.0
VulkanN/A1.3
CUDA-10.1

Pros & cons summary


Maximum RAM amount 128 MB 32 GB

RTX 5090 has a 25500% higher maximum VRAM amount.

We couldn't decide between FireGL V5100 and GeForce RTX 5090. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that FireGL V5100 is a workstation graphics card while GeForce RTX 5090 is a desktop one.


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