In terms of overall gaming performance, the graphical capabilities of the AMD FirePro V5900 are noticeably better than the AMD Radeon R7 240 2GB.

The R7 240 has a 130 MHz higher core clock speed than the FirePro V5900, but the FirePro V5900 has 12 more Texture Mapping Units than the R7 240. As a result, the FirePro V5900 exhibits a 4.6 GTexel/s better Texture Fill Rate than the R7 240. This still holds weight but shader performance is generally more relevant, particularly since both of these GPUs support at least DirectX 10.

The R7 240 has a 130 MHz higher core clock speed than the FirePro V5900, but the FirePro V5900 has 24 more Render Output Units than the R7 240. As a result, the FirePro V5900 exhibits a 13.4 GPixel/s better Pixel Fill Rate than the R7 240. However, both GPUs support DirectX 9 or above, and pixeling performance is only really relevant when comparing older cards.

The R7 240 was released over a year more recently than the FirePro V5900, and so the R7 240 is likely to have better driver support, meaning it will be more optimized for running the latest games when compared to the FirePro V5900.

The Radeon R7 240 2GB and the FirePro V5900 have the same amount of video memory, but are likely to provide slightly different experiences when displaying game textures at high resolutions.

The FirePro V5900 has 99.2 GB/sec greater memory bandwidth than the R7 240, which means that the memory performance of the FirePro V5900 is massively better than the R7 240.

The Radeon R7 240 2GB has 320 Shader Processing Units and the FirePro V5900 has 512. However, the actual shader performance of the R7 240 is 212 and the actual shader performance of the FirePro V5900 is 200. The R7 240 having 12 better shader performance is not particularly notable, as altogether the FirePro V5900 performs better when taking into account other relevant data.

The R7 240 transistor size technology is 12 nm (nanometers) smaller than the FirePro V5900. This means that the R7 240 is expected to run slightly cooler and achieve higher clock frequencies than the FirePro V5900.

The Radeon R7 240 2GB requires 30 Watts to run and the FirePro V5900 requires 75 Watts. We would recommend a PSU with at least 400 Watts for the R7 240 and a PSU with at least 400 Watts for the FirePro V5900. The FirePro V5900 requires 45 Watts more than the R7 240 to run. The difference is significant enough that the FirePro V5900 may have a slight adverse affect on your yearly electricity bills in comparison to the R7 240.