AMD FirePro V5900 vs ATI Radeon 9600

Comparative analysis of AMD FirePro V5900 and ATI Radeon 9600 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. 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).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD FirePro V5900

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 7 year(s) 7 month(s) later
  • Around 85% higher core clock speed: 600 MHz vs 324 MHz
  • 14.8x more texture fill rate: 19.2 GTexel / s vs 1.296 GTexel / s
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 130 nm
  • 32x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 64 MB
  • 5.3x more memory clock speed: 2000 MHz vs 378 MHz
  • 50.6x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1265 vs 25
  • 2.4x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 355 vs 150
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 24 May 2011 vs 1 October 2003
Core clock speed 600 MHz vs 324 MHz
Texture fill rate 19.2 GTexel / s vs 1.296 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm vs 130 nm
Maximum memory size 2 GB vs 64 MB
Memory clock speed 2000 MHz vs 378 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 1265 vs 25
PassMark - G2D Mark 355 vs 150

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon 9600

  • 6.3x lower typical power consumption: 12 Watt vs 75 Watt
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 12 Watt vs 75 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD FirePro V5900
GPU 2: ATI Radeon 9600

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
1265
25
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
355
150
Name AMD FirePro V5900 ATI Radeon 9600
PassMark - G3D Mark 1265 25
PassMark - G2D Mark 355 150
Geekbench - OpenCL 2880
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 8.167
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 409.102
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 0.772
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 20.064
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 66.259
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 1713
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 2091
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 5078
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 1713
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 2091
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 5078

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD FirePro V5900 ATI Radeon 9600

Essentials

Architecture TeraScale 3 Rage 8
Code name Cayman RV350
Launch date 24 May 2011 1 October 2003
Place in performance rating 1098 1100
Type Workstation Desktop

Technical info

Core clock speed 600 MHz 324 MHz
Floating-point performance 614.4 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 130 nm
Pipelines 512
Texture fill rate 19.2 GTexel / s 1.296 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 75 Watt 12 Watt
Transistor count 2,640 million 76 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x DVI 1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 AGP 8x
Length 230 mm
Supplementary power connectors None None

API support

DirectX 11.2 (11_0) 9.0
OpenGL 4.4 2.0

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 64 MB
Memory bandwidth 128.0 GB / s 6.05 GB / s
Memory bus width 256 Bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 2000 MHz 378 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 DDR