AMD FirePro V5900 vs NVIDIA GeForce FX 5500

Comparative analysis of AMD FirePro V5900 and NVIDIA GeForce FX 5500 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).

AMD FirePro V5900

NVIDIA GeForce FX 5500

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD FirePro V5900

Videocard is newer: launch date 7 year(s) 2 month(s) later
2.6x more core clock speed: 600 MHz vs 230 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 140 nm
32x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 64 MB
10x more memory clock speed: 2000 MHz vs 200 MHz
158x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1264 vs 8
2.3x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 350 vs 152

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	24 May 2011 vs 17 March 2004
Core clock speed	600 MHz vs 230 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 140 nm
Maximum memory size	2 GB vs 64 MB
Memory clock speed	2000 MHz vs 200 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	1264 vs 8
PassMark - G2D Mark	350 vs 152

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce FX 5500

47.9x more texture fill rate: 920 MTexel / s vs 19.2 GTexel / s

Texture fill rate	920 MTexel / s vs 19.2 GTexel / s

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD FirePro V5900
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce FX 5500

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

1264

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

350

152

Name	AMD FirePro V5900	NVIDIA GeForce FX 5500
PassMark - G3D Mark	1264	8
PassMark - G2D Mark	350	152
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	NVIDIA GeForce FX 5500
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale 3	Rankine
Code name	Cayman	NV34 B1
Launch date	24 May 2011	17 March 2004
Place in performance rating	1091	1094
Type	Workstation	Desktop
Launch price (MSRP)		$36.99
Price now		$36.99
Value for money (0-100)		0.30
Technical info
Core clock speed	600 MHz	230 MHz
Floating-point performance	614.4 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	140 nm
Pipelines	512
Texture fill rate	19.2 GTexel / s	920 MTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	75 Watt
Transistor count	2,640 million	45 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	152 mm
Supplementary power connectors	None	None
API support
DirectX	11.2 (11_0)	9.0a
OpenGL	4.4	1.5 (2.1)
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	64 MB
Memory bandwidth	128.0 GB / s	3.2 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	2000 MHz	200 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	DDR