ATI FirePro V7800 vs NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900 Ultra

Comparative analysis of ATI FirePro V7800 and NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900 Ultra 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 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps).

ATI FirePro V7800

NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900 Ultra

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI FirePro V7800

Videocard is newer: launch date 6 year(s) 6 month(s) later
Around 56% higher core clock speed: 700 MHz vs 450 MHz
28x more texture fill rate: 50.4 GTexel / s vs 1.8 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 130 nm
8x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 256 MB
4.7x more memory clock speed: 4000 MHz vs 850 MHz
49.5x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 2028 vs 41
Around 81% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 307 vs 170

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	26 April 2010 vs 23 October 2003
Core clock speed	700 MHz vs 450 MHz
Texture fill rate	50.4 GTexel / s vs 1.8 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 130 nm
Maximum memory size	2 GB vs 256 MB
Memory clock speed	4000 MHz vs 850 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	2028 vs 41
PassMark - G2D Mark	307 vs 170

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900 Ultra

2.5x lower typical power consumption: 59 Watt vs 150 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	59 Watt vs 150 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI FirePro V7800
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900 Ultra

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

2028

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

307

170

Name	ATI FirePro V7800	NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900 Ultra
PassMark - G3D Mark	2028	41
PassMark - G2D Mark	307	170
Geekbench - OpenCL	4894
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	15.084
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	1124.892
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	1.448
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	39.448
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	181.538
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	3721
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	63

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI FirePro V7800	NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900 Ultra
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale 2	Rankine
Code name	Cypress	NV35
Launch date	26 April 2010	23 October 2003
Launch price (MSRP)	$759	$499
Place in performance rating	1010	1014
Type	Workstation	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	700 MHz	450 MHz
Floating-point performance	2,016.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	130 nm
Pipelines	1440
Texture fill rate	50.4 GTexel / s	1.8 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	150 Watt	59 Watt
Transistor count	2,154 million	135 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 2x DisplayPort	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	AGP 8x
Length	254 mm	218 mm
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin	1x Molex
API support
DirectX	11.2 (11_0)	9.0a
OpenGL	4.4	1.5 (2.1)
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	256 MB
Memory bandwidth	128.0 GB / s	27.2 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	4000 MHz	850 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	DDR