GeForce GTX 1660 vs FirePro W4100

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Aggregate performance score

We've compared FirePro W4100 with GeForce GTX 1660, including specs and performance data.

FirePro W4100
2014
2 GB GDDR5, 50 Watt
3.93

GTX 1660 outperforms W4100 by a whopping 670% based on our aggregate benchmark results.

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking699186
Place by popularitynot in top-10039
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data48.17
Power efficiency5.3917.30
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2011−2020)Turing (2018−2022)
GPU code nameCape VerdeTU116
Market segmentWorkstationDesktop
Release date13 August 2014 (10 years ago)14 March 2019 (5 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$219

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 cores5121408
Core clock speed630 MHz1530 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1785 MHz
Number of transistors1,500 million6,600 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)50 Watt120 Watt
Texture fill rate20.16157.1
Floating-point processing power0.6451 TFLOPS5.027 TFLOPS
ROPs1648
TMUs3288

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 3.0 x16
Length171 mm229 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 typeGDDR5GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount2 GB6 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit192 Bit
Memory clock speed1000 MHz2001 MHz
Memory bandwidth72 GB/s192.1 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 Connectors4x mini-DisplayPort1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
HDMI-+
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 (12_1)
Shader Model5.16.5
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.21.2
Vulkan1.2.1311.2.131
CUDA-7.5

Synthetic benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmark results comparison. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.


Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark score. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

FirePro W4100 3.93
GTX 1660 30.28
+670%

Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.

FirePro W4100 1515
GTX 1660 11669
+670%

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics

Fire Strike is a DirectX 11 benchmark for gaming PCs. It features two separate tests displaying a fight between a humanoid and a fiery creature made of lava. Using 1920x1080 resolution, Fire Strike shows off some realistic graphics and is quite taxing on hardware.

FirePro W4100 1665
GTX 1660 14164
+751%

3DMark Cloud Gate GPU

Cloud Gate is an outdated DirectX 11 feature level 10 benchmark that was used for home PCs and basic notebooks. It displays a few scenes of some weird space teleportation device launching spaceships into unknown, using fixed resolution of 1280x720. Just like Ice Storm benchmark, it has been discontinued in January 2020 and replaced by 3DMark Night Raid.

FirePro W4100 12657
GTX 1660 81755
+546%

GeekBench 5 OpenCL

Geekbench 5 is a widespread graphics card benchmark combined from 11 different test scenarios. All these scenarios rely on direct usage of GPU's processing power, no 3D rendering is involved. This variation uses OpenCL API by Khronos Group.

FirePro W4100 5483
GTX 1660 57961
+957%

GeekBench 5 Vulkan

Geekbench 5 is a widespread graphics card benchmark combined from 11 different test scenarios. All these scenarios rely on direct usage of GPU's processing power, no 3D rendering is involved. This variation uses Vulkan API by AMD & Khronos Group.

FirePro W4100 6520
GTX 1660 56067
+760%

Gaming performance

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

Average FPS across all PC games

Here are the average frames per second in a large set of popular games across different resolutions:

Full HD16
−419%
83
+419%
1440p6−7
−717%
49
+717%
4K3
−767%
26
+767%

Cost per frame, $

1080pno data2.64
1440pno data4.47
4Kno data8.42

FPS performance in popular games

Full HD
Low Preset

Cyberpunk 2077 7−8
−914%
71
+914%

Full HD
Medium Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 10−12
−491%
65−70
+491%
Assassin's Creed Valhalla 3−4
−1867%
59
+1867%
Battlefield 5 9−10
−1000%
95−100
+1000%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 9−10
−711%
73
+711%
Cyberpunk 2077 7−8
−729%
58
+729%
Far Cry 5 8−9
−750%
65−70
+750%
Far Cry New Dawn 10−12
−600%
75−80
+600%
Forza Horizon 4 21−24
−617%
160−170
+617%
Hitman 3 9−10
−667%
69
+667%
Horizon Zero Dawn 27−30
−1033%
306
+1033%
Metro Exodus 7−8
−1957%
144
+1957%
Red Dead Redemption 2 10−11
−1020%
112
+1020%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 14−16
−600%
100−110
+600%
Watch Dogs: Legion 40−45
−428%
227
+428%

Full HD
High Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 10−12
−1018%
123
+1018%
Assassin's Creed Valhalla 3−4
−1300%
42
+1300%
Battlefield 5 9−10
−1000%
95−100
+1000%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 9−10
−644%
67
+644%
Cyberpunk 2077 7−8
−571%
47
+571%
Far Cry 5 8−9
−750%
65−70
+750%
Far Cry New Dawn 10−12
−600%
75−80
+600%
Forza Horizon 4 21−24
−617%
160−170
+617%
Hitman 3 9−10
−644%
67
+644%
Horizon Zero Dawn 27−30
−963%
287
+963%
Metro Exodus 7−8
−1514%
113
+1514%
Red Dead Redemption 2 10−11
−690%
79
+690%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 14−16
−633%
110
+633%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 16−18
−300%
60−65
+300%
Watch Dogs: Legion 40−45
−398%
214
+398%

Full HD
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 10−12
−491%
65−70
+491%
Assassin's Creed Valhalla 3−4
−1133%
37
+1133%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 9−10
−444%
49
+444%
Cyberpunk 2077 7−8
−471%
40
+471%
Far Cry 5 8−9
−750%
65−70
+750%
Forza Horizon 4 21−24
−326%
98
+326%
Hitman 3 9−10
−556%
59
+556%
Horizon Zero Dawn 27−30
−244%
93
+244%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 14−16
−533%
95
+533%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 16−18
−256%
57
+256%
Watch Dogs: Legion 40−45
+48.3%
29
−48.3%

Full HD
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2 10−11
−710%
81
+710%

1440p
High Preset

Battlefield 5 7−8
−714%
55−60
+714%
Far Cry New Dawn 6−7
−667%
45−50
+667%

1440p
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 4−5
−700%
30−35
+700%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3−4
−1033%
34
+1033%
Cyberpunk 2077 2−3
−1100%
24
+1100%
Far Cry 5 4−5
−775%
35−40
+775%
Forza Horizon 4 4−5
−4250%
170−180
+4250%
Hitman 3 8−9
−388%
39
+388%
Horizon Zero Dawn 9−10
−644%
67
+644%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 3−4
−1233%
40−45
+1233%
Watch Dogs: Legion 24−27
−679%
187
+679%

1440p
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2 8−9
−563%
53
+563%

4K
High Preset

Battlefield 5 2−3
−1400%
30−33
+1400%
Far Cry New Dawn 2−3
−1100%
24−27
+1100%
Hitman 3 0−1 21
Metro Exodus 0−1 44

4K
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 3−4
−533%
18−20
+533%
Assassin's Creed Valhalla 2−3
−650%
15
+650%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 1−2
−1600%
17
+1600%
Cyberpunk 2077 0−1 10
Far Cry 5 2−3
−750%
16−18
+750%
Forza Horizon 4 2−3
−2400%
50
+2400%
Watch Dogs: Legion 1−2
−1100%
12
+1100%

4K
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2 5−6
−420%
26
+420%

1440p
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Valhalla 27
+0%
27
+0%
Metro Exodus 59
+0%
59
+0%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 67
+0%
67
+0%

4K
High Preset

Horizon Zero Dawn 63
+0%
63
+0%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 35
+0%
35
+0%

4K
Ultra Preset

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 36
+0%
36
+0%

This is how FirePro W4100 and GTX 1660 compete in popular games:

  • GTX 1660 is 419% faster in 1080p
  • GTX 1660 is 717% faster in 1440p
  • GTX 1660 is 767% faster in 4K

Here's the range of performance differences observed across popular games:

  • in Watch Dogs: Legion, with 1080p resolution and the Ultra Preset, the FirePro W4100 is 48% faster.
  • in Forza Horizon 4, with 1440p resolution and the Ultra Preset, the GTX 1660 is 4250% faster.

All in all, in popular games:

  • FirePro W4100 is ahead in 1 test (1%)
  • GTX 1660 is ahead in 62 tests (90%)
  • there's a draw in 6 tests (9%)

Pros & cons summary


Performance score 3.93 30.28
Recency 13 August 2014 14 March 2019
Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 6 GB
Chip lithography 28 nm 12 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 50 Watt 120 Watt

FirePro W4100 has 140% lower power consumption.

GTX 1660, on the other hand, has a 670.5% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 4 years, a 200% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 133.3% more advanced lithography process.

The GeForce GTX 1660 is our recommended choice as it beats the FirePro W4100 in performance tests.

Be aware that FirePro W4100 is a workstation graphics card while GeForce GTX 1660 is a desktop 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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