A100 PCIe vs FirePro W2100

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking840not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency6.43no data
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2011−2020)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameOlandGA100
Market segmentWorkstationWorkstation
Release date12 August 2014 (10 years ago)22 June 2020 (4 years 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 cores3206912
Core clock speed630 MHz1410 MHz
Boost clock speed680 MHzno data
Number of transistors950 million54,200 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)26 Watt250 Watt
Texture fill rate13.60609.1
Floating-point processing power0.4352 TFLOPS19.49 TFLOPS
ROPs8160
TMUs20432
Tensor Coresno data432

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 x8PCIe 4.0 x16
Lengthno data267 mm
Width1-slot2-slot
Form factorlow profile / half lengthno data
Supplementary power connectorsNone1x 8-pin

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 typeDDR3HBM2e
Maximum RAM amount2 GB40 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit5120 Bit
Memory clock speed900 MHz1215 MHz
Memory bandwidth28.8 GB/s1,555 GB/s
Shared memory--

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 Connectors2x DisplayPortNo outputs
DisplayPort count2no data
Dual-link DVI support+-

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

AppAcceleration+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_1)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model5.16.5
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.22.0
Vulkan1.2.1311.2
CUDA-8.0

Pros & cons summary


Recency 12 August 2014 22 June 2020
Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 40 GB
Chip lithography 28 nm 7 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 26 Watt 250 Watt

FirePro W2100 has 861.5% lower power consumption.

A100 PCIe, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 5 years, a 1900% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 300% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between FirePro W2100 and A100 PCIe. We've got no test results to judge.


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