
FirePro V5900 and GeForce 7900 GTO - video card comparison
FirePro V5900
GeForce 7900 GTO
Architecture
TeraScale 3 (2010−2013)
Curie (2003−2013)
GPU code name
Cayman
G71
Market segment
Workstation
Desktop
Release date
May 2011
October 2006
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
1x 6-pin
Core clock speed
600 MHz
650 MHz
Floating-point performance
614.4 gflops
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Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
90 nm
Number of transistors
2,640 million
278 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
512
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Power consumption (TDP)
75 Watt
81 Watt
Texture fill rate
19.20
15.60
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
512 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
2000 MHz
1320 MHz
Memory bandwidth
64 GB/s
42.24 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x DVI
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
9.0c (9_3)
OpenCL
1.2
N/A
OpenGL
4.4
2.1
Shader Model
5.0
3.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A