Radeon RX 7900 XTX vs FirePro V7900 SDI

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated8
Place by popularitynot in top-10070
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data34.71
Power efficiencyno data15.57
ArchitectureTeraScale 3 (2010−2013)RDNA 3.0 (2022−2024)
GPU code nameCaymanNavi 31
Market segmentWorkstationDesktop
Release date24 May 2011 (13 years ago)3 November 2022 (2 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$999

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 cores12806144
Core clock speed725 MHz1929 MHz
Boost clock speedno data2498 MHz
Number of transistors2,640 million57,700 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)224 Watt355 Watt
Texture fill rate58.00959.2
Floating-point processing power1.856 TFLOPS61.39 TFLOPS
ROPs32192
TMUs80384
Ray Tracing Coresno data96

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).

Bus supportPCIe 2.1 x16no data
InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x16
Length279 mm287 mm
Width1-slot2-slot
Form factorfull height / full lengthno data
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pin2x 8-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 typeGDDR5GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount2 GB24 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit384 Bit
Memory clock speed1250 MHz2500 MHz
Memory bandwidth160 GB/s960.0 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 Connectors4x SDI1x HDMI 2.1a, 2x DisplayPort 2.1, 1x USB Type-C
HDMI-+
StereoOutput3D+-
DisplayPort count4no data
Dual-link DVI support+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.2 (11_0)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model5.06.7
OpenGL4.44.6
OpenCL1.22.2
VulkanN/A1.3

Pros & cons summary


Recency 24 May 2011 3 November 2022
Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 24 GB
Chip lithography 40 nm 5 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 224 Watt 355 Watt

V7900 SDI has 58.5% lower power consumption.

RX 7900 XTX, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 11 years, a 1100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 700% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between FirePro V7900 SDI and Radeon RX 7900 XTX. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that FirePro V7900 SDI is a workstation graphics card while Radeon RX 7900 XTX is a desktop one.


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