GeForce RTX 4070 Mobile vs FirePro A300

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot rated54
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data30.34
ArchitectureTeraScale 3 (2010−2013)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameTrinity GLAD106
Market segmentWorkstationLaptop
Release date6 June 2012 (12 years ago)3 January 2023 (1 year ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores3844608
Core clock speed760 MHz1395 MHz
Boost clock speed905 MHz1695 MHz
Number of transistors1,303 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology32 nm4 nm
Power consumption (TDP)65 Watt115 Watt
Texture fill rate21.72244.1
Floating-point processing power0.695 TFLOPS15.62 TFLOPS
ROPs848
TMUs24144
Tensor Coresno data144
Ray Tracing Coresno data36

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Laptop sizeno datalarge
InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x16
WidthIGPno data

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeSystem SharedGDDR6
Maximum RAM amountSystem Shared8 GB
Memory bus widthSystem Shared128 Bit
Memory clock speedSystem Shared2000 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data256.0 GB/s
Shared memoryno data-

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display ConnectorsNo outputsPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX11.2 (11_0)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model5.06.7
OpenGL4.44.6
OpenCL1.23.0
VulkanN/A1.3
CUDA-8.9

Pros & cons summary


Recency 6 June 2012 3 January 2023
Chip lithography 32 nm 4 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 65 Watt 115 Watt

FirePro A300 has 76.9% lower power consumption.

RTX 4070 Mobile, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 10 years, and a 700% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between FirePro A300 and GeForce RTX 4070 Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that FirePro A300 is a workstation card while GeForce RTX 4070 Mobile is a notebook one.


Should you still have questions concerning choice between the reviewed GPUs, ask them in Comments section, and we shall answer.

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AMD FirePro A300
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