RTX A1000 vs FirePro S4000X

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated192
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data39.86
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2011−2020)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameVenusGA107
Market segmentMobile workstationWorkstation
Release date7 August 2014 (10 years ago)16 April 2024 (less than a 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 cores6402304
Core clock speed725 MHz727 MHz
Boost clock speed775 MHz1462 MHz
Number of transistors1,500 million8,700 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)45 Watt50 Watt
Texture fill rate31.00105.3
Floating-point processing power0.992 TFLOPS6.737 TFLOPS
ROPs1632
TMUs4072
Tensor Coresno data72
Ray Tracing Coresno data18

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).

Bus supportPCIe 3.0no data
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x8
Lengthno data163 mm
Widthno data1-slot
Form factorMXM-Ano data
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

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 typeGDDR5GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount2 GB8 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed1125 MHz1500 MHz
Memory bandwidth72 GB/s192.0 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 ConnectorsNo outputs4x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a
Dual-link DVI support+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_1)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model5.16.7
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.23.0
Vulkan1.2.1311.3
CUDA-8.6

Pros & cons summary


Recency 7 August 2014 16 April 2024
Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 8 GB
Chip lithography 28 nm 8 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 45 Watt 50 Watt

S4000X has 11.1% lower power consumption.

RTX A1000, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 9 years, a 300% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 250% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between FirePro S4000X and RTX A1000. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that FirePro S4000X is a mobile workstation card while RTX A1000 is a workstation one.


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