ATI Mobility FireGL V5700 vs FirePro V5900

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking737not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency3.04no data
ArchitectureTeraScale 3 (2010−2013)TeraScale (2005−2013)
GPU code nameCaymanM86
Market segmentWorkstationMobile workstation
Release date24 May 2011 (13 years ago)7 January 2008 (16 years ago)

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 cores512120
Core clock speed600 MHz600 MHz
Number of transistors2,640 million378 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm55 nm
Power consumption (TDP)75 Wattno data
Texture fill rate19.204.800
Floating-point processing power0.6144 TFLOPS0.144 TFLOPS
ROPs324
TMUs328

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).

Laptop sizeno datamedium sized
InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 2.0 x16
Length230 mmno data
Width1-slotno data
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno data

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 typeGDDR5GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount2 GB512 MB
Memory bus width256 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed500 MHz700 MHz
Memory bandwidth64 GB/s22.4 GB/s
Shared memory--

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 Connectors1x DVINo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.2 (11_0)10.1 (10_1)
Shader Model5.04.1
OpenGL4.43.3
OpenCL1.2N/A
VulkanN/AN/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 24 May 2011 7 January 2008
Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 512 MB
Chip lithography 40 nm 55 nm

FirePro V5900 has an age advantage of 3 years, a 300% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 37.5% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between FirePro V5900 and Mobility FireGL V5700. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that FirePro V5900 is a workstation card while Mobility FireGL V5700 is a mobile workstation one.


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