GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q Refresh vs FirePro W2100

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking843not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency6.23no data
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2011−2020)Turing (2018−2022)
GPU code nameOlandTU106B
Market segmentWorkstationLaptop
Release date12 August 2014 (10 years ago)16 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 cores3202304
Core clock speed630 MHz900 MHz
Boost clock speed680 MHz1125 MHz
Number of transistors950 million10,800 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)26 Watt115 Watt
Texture fill rate13.60162.0
Floating-point processing power0.4352 TFLOPS5.184 TFLOPS
ROPs864
TMUs20144
Tensor Coresno data288
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).

Bus supportPCIe 3.0no data
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x8PCIe 3.0 x16
Width1-slotno data
Form factorlow profile / half lengthno data
Supplementary power connectorsNoneNone

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 typeDDR3GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount2 GB8 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed900 MHz1375 MHz
Memory bandwidth28.8 GB/s352.0 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
OpenCL1.21.2
Vulkan1.2.1311.2
CUDA-7.5

Pros & cons summary


Recency 12 August 2014 16 June 2020
Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 8 GB
Chip lithography 28 nm 12 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 26 Watt 115 Watt

FirePro W2100 has 342.3% lower power consumption.

RTX 2070 Max-Q Refresh, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 5 years, a 300% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 133.3% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between FirePro W2100 and GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q Refresh. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that FirePro W2100 is a workstation card while GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q Refresh is a notebook one.


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AMD FirePro W2100
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