Radeon Pro WX 5100 vs FirePro D700

Place in the ranking	370	362
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	no data	5.98
Power efficiency	3.53	13.27
Architecture	GCN 1.0 (2011−2020)	GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)
GPU code name	Tahiti	Ellesmere
Market segment	Workstation	Workstation
Release date	18 January 2014 (10 years ago)	18 November 2016 (7 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	no data	$499

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

no data

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 cores	2048	1792
Core clock speed	850 MHz	713 MHz
Boost clock speed	no data	1086 MHz
Number of transistors	4,313 million	5,700 million
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	274 Watt	75 Watt
Texture fill rate	108.8	121.6
Floating-point processing power	3.482 TFLOPS	3.892 TFLOPS
ROPs	32	32
TMUs	128	112

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).

Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
Length	279 mm	no data
Width	2-slot	1-slot
Supplementary power connectors	no data	None

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 type	GDDR5	GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount	6 GB	8 GB
Memory bus width	384 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	1370 MHz	1250 MHz
Memory bandwidth	263.0 GB/s	160.0 GB/s

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 Connectors

6x mini-DisplayPort, 1x SDI

4x DisplayPort

API compatibility

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

DirectX	12 (11_1)	12 (12_0)
Shader Model	5.1	6.4
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
OpenCL	1.2	2.0
Vulkan	1.2.131	1.2.131

Gaming performance

Let's see how good the compared graphics cards are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.

Pros & cons summary

Performance score	14.01	14.40
Recency	18 January 2014	18 November 2016
Maximum RAM amount	6 GB	8 GB
Chip lithography	28 nm	14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	274 Watt	75 Watt

Pro WX 5100 has a 2.8% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 2 years, a 33.3% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 100% more advanced lithography process, and 265.3% lower power consumption.

Given the minimal performance differences, no clear winner can be declared between FirePro D700 and Radeon Pro WX 5100.

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