Radeon R7 430 OEM vs FirePro V5900

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking744not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency3.00no data
ArchitectureTeraScale 3 (2010−2013)GCN 1.0 (2011−2020)
GPU code nameCaymanOland
Market segmentWorkstationDesktop
Release date24 May 2011 (13 years ago)30 June 2016 (8 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 cores512384
Core clock speed600 MHz730 MHz
Boost clock speedno data780 MHz
Number of transistors2,640 million950 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)75 Watt50 Watt
Texture fill rate19.2018.72
Floating-point processing power0.6144 TFLOPS0.599 TFLOPS
ROPs328
TMUs3224

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 2.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x8
Length230 mmno data
Width1-slot1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNoneNone

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 typeGDDR5DDR3
Maximum RAM amount2 GB2 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed500 MHz900 MHz
Memory bandwidth64 GB/s28.8 GB/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 Connectors1x DVI1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
HDMI-+

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.2 (11_0)12 (11_1)
Shader Model5.05.1
OpenGL4.44.6
OpenCL1.21.2
VulkanN/A1.2.131

Pros & cons summary


Recency 24 May 2011 30 June 2016
Chip lithography 40 nm 28 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 75 Watt 50 Watt

R7 430 OEM has an age advantage of 5 years, a 42.9% more advanced lithography process, and 50% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between FirePro V5900 and Radeon R7 430 OEM. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that FirePro V5900 is a workstation graphics card while Radeon R7 430 OEM is a desktop one.


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