AMD FirePro M5100 vs AMD Radeon HD 6990

Comparative analysis of AMD FirePro M5100 and AMD Radeon HD 6990 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD FirePro M5100

• Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 7 month(s) later
• A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 40 nm
• Around 50% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 800 vs 532
• Around 29% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s): 22.202 vs 17.264
• Around 28% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s): 2.245 vs 1.76

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6990

• Around 14% higher core clock speed: 830 MHz vs 725 MHz
• 9x more texture fill rate: 2x 79.7 GTexel / s billion / sec vs 31 GTexel / s
• 4.8x more pipelines: 2x 1536 vs 640
• 5.1x better floating-point performance: 2x 2,549.8 gflops vs 992.0 gflops
• 2x more maximum memory size: 2x 2 GB vs 2 GB
• Around 11% higher memory clock speed: 5000 MHz vs 4500 MHz
• Around 43% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 3014 vs 2103
• Around 56% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s): 840.452 vs 537.558
• Around 33% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s): 53.903 vs 40.642
• 2.5x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s): 265.302 vs 108.052
• Around 56% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 4562 vs 2926
• Around 56% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 4562 vs 2926

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD FirePro M5100
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 6990

PassMark - G3D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	2103 3014
PassMark - G2D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	800 532
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	22.202 17.264
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	537.558 840.452
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	2.245 1.76
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	40.642 53.903
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	108.052 265.302
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	2926 4562
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3713 3713
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3358 3356
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	2926 4562
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3713 3713
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3358 3356

Compare specifications (specs)