AMD FirePro V7900 vs AMD Radeon HD 6850

Comparative analysis of AMD FirePro V7900 and AMD Radeon HD 6850 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 V7900

• Videocard is newer: launch date 7 month(s) later
• Around 56% higher texture fill rate: 58.0 GTexel / s vs 37.2 GTexel / s
• Around 33% higher pipelines: 1280 vs 960
• Around 25% better floating-point performance: 1,856.0 gflops vs 1,488.0 gflops
• 2x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 1 GB
• Around 15% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 2254 vs 1953
• Around 8% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s): 14.134 vs 13.033
• Around 12% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s): 36.678 vs 32.609
• Around 23% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s): 171.25 vs 139.45

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6850

• Around 19% lower typical power consumption: 127 Watt vs 151 Watt
• Around 28% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 434 vs 340
• Around 40% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s): 946.933 vs 676.409
• Around 2% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s): 1.333 vs 1.309
• Around 16% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 3489 vs 2996
• Around 16% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 3489 vs 2996

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD FirePro V7900
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 6850

PassMark - G3D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	2254 1953
PassMark - G2D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	340 434
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	14.134 13.033
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	676.409 946.933
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	1.309 1.333
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	36.678 32.609
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	171.25 139.45
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	2996 3489
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3710 3708
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3354 3348
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	2996 3489
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3710 3708
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3354 3348

Compare specifications (specs)