GeForce RTX 2060 Mobile vs FirePro W4100

Place in the ranking	695	181
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Power efficiency	5.43	18.32
Architecture	GCN 1.0 (2011−2020)	Turing (2018−2022)
GPU code name	Cape Verde	TU106
Market segment	Workstation	Laptop
Release date	13 August 2014 (10 years ago)	29 January 2019 (5 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 cores	512	1920
Core clock speed	630 MHz	960 MHz
Boost clock speed	no data	1200 MHz
Number of transistors	1,500 million	10,800 million
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	50 Watt	115 Watt
Texture fill rate	20.16	144.0
Floating-point processing power	0.6451 TFLOPS	4.608 TFLOPS
ROPs	16	48
TMUs	32	120
Tensor Cores	no data	240
Ray Tracing Cores	no data	30

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).

Laptop size	no data	large
Bus support	PCIe 3.0	no data
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
Length	171 mm	no data
Width	1-slot	no data
Form factor	low profile / half length	no data
Supplementary power connectors	None	no data

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	GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	6 GB
Memory bus width	128 Bit	192 Bit
Memory clock speed	1000 MHz	1750 MHz
Memory bandwidth	72 GB/s	336.0 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 Connectors	4x mini-DisplayPort	No outputs
G-SYNC support	-	+
Dual-link DVI support	+	-

Supported technologies

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

AppAcceleration	+	-
VR Ready	no data	+

API compatibility

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

DirectX	12 (11_1)	12 Ultimate (12_1)
Shader Model	5.1	6.5
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
OpenCL	1.2	1.2
Vulkan	1.2.131	1.2.131
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 3.92

RTX 2060 Mobile 30.44
+677%

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

RTX 2060 Mobile 16331
+881%

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

RTX 2060 Mobile 99179
+684%

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 HD	16 −538%	102 +538%
1440p	8−9 −688%	63 +688%
4K	3 −1200%	39 +1200%

FPS performance in popular games

Full HD
Low Preset

Cyberpunk 2077

7−8

−600%

45−50
+600%

Full HD
Medium Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	10−12 −727%	91 +727%
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	3−4 −2267%	71 +2267%
Battlefield 5	9−10 −1222%	119 +1222%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	9−10 −878%	88 +878%
Cyberpunk 2077	7−8 −600%	45−50 +600%
Far Cry 5	8−9 −1213%	105 +1213%
Far Cry New Dawn	10−12 −900%	110 +900%
Forza Horizon 4	21−24 −1491%	366 +1491%
Hitman 3	9−10 −822%	83 +822%
Horizon Zero Dawn	27−30 −726%	223 +726%
Metro Exodus	7−8 −1757%	130 +1757%
Red Dead Redemption 2	10−11 −900%	100 +900%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	14−16 −887%	148 +887%
Watch Dogs: Legion	40−45 −428%	227 +428%

Full HD
High Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	10−12 −873%	107 +873%
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	3−4 −1767%	56 +1767%
Battlefield 5	9−10 −1067%	105 +1067%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	9−10 −778%	79 +778%
Cyberpunk 2077	7−8 −600%	45−50 +600%
Far Cry 5	8−9 −963%	85 +963%
Far Cry New Dawn	10−12 −645%	82 +645%
Forza Horizon 4	21−24 −1117%	280 +1117%
Hitman 3	9−10 −733%	75 +733%
Horizon Zero Dawn	27−30 −626%	196 +626%
Metro Exodus	7−8 −1500%	112 +1500%
Red Dead Redemption 2	10−11 −650%	75 +650%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	14−16 −720%	123 +720%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	16−18 −288%	60−65 +288%
Watch Dogs: Legion	40−45 −342%	190 +342%

Full HD
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	10−12 −355%	50 +355%
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	3−4 −1500%	48 +1500%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	9−10 −544%	58 +544%
Cyberpunk 2077	7−8 −600%	45−50 +600%
Far Cry 5	8−9 −675%	62 +675%
Forza Horizon 4	21−24 −283%	88 +283%
Hitman 3	9−10 −633%	66 +633%
Horizon Zero Dawn	27−30 −248%	94 +248%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	14−16 −613%	107 +613%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	16−18 −275%	60 +275%
Watch Dogs: Legion	40−45 +13.2%	38 −13.2%

Full HD
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2

10−11

−690%

79
+690%

1440p
High Preset

Battlefield 5	7−8 −829%	65 +829%
Far Cry New Dawn	6−7 −800%	54 +800%

1440p
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	4−5 −900%	40 +900%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	3−4 −1300%	42 +1300%
Cyberpunk 2077	2−3 −900%	20−22 +900%
Far Cry 5	4−5 −950%	42 +950%
Forza Horizon 4	4−5 −6050%	246 +6050%
Hitman 3	8−9 −475%	46 +475%
Horizon Zero Dawn	9−10 −678%	70 +678%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	3−4 −1167%	35−40 +1167%
Watch Dogs: Legion	24−27 −775%	210 +775%

1440p
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2

8−9

−675%

62
+675%

4K
High Preset

Battlefield 5	2−3 −1500%	32 +1500%
Far Cry New Dawn	2−3 −1400%	30 +1400%
Hitman 3	0−1	28
Metro Exodus	0−1	35−40

4K
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	3−4 −733%	25 +733%
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	2−3 −1000%	22 +1000%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	1−2 −1900%	20 +1900%
Cyberpunk 2077	0−1	8−9
Far Cry 5	2−3 −950%	21 +950%
Forza Horizon 4	2−3 −1900%	40−45 +1900%
Watch Dogs: Legion	1−2 −1400%	15 +1400%

4K
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2

5−6

−500%

30
+500%

1440p
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Valhalla	38 +0%	38 +0%
Metro Exodus	55−60 +0%	55−60 +0%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	65−70 +0%	65−70 +0%

4K
High Preset

Horizon Zero Dawn	86 +0%	86 +0%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	39 +0%	39 +0%

4K
Ultra Preset

Shadow of the Tomb Raider

35−40

+0%

35−40

+0%

This is how FirePro W4100 and RTX 2060 Mobile compete in popular games:

RTX 2060 Mobile is 538% faster in 1080p
RTX 2060 Mobile is 688% faster in 1440p
RTX 2060 Mobile is 1200% 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 13% faster.
in Forza Horizon 4, with 1440p resolution and the Ultra Preset, the RTX 2060 Mobile is 6050% faster.

All in all, in popular games:

FirePro W4100 is ahead in 1 test (1%)
RTX 2060 Mobile is ahead in 62 tests (90%)
there's a draw in 6 tests (9%)

Pros & cons summary

Performance score	3.92	30.44
Recency	13 August 2014	29 January 2019
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	6 GB
Chip lithography	28 nm	12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	50 Watt	115 Watt

FirePro W4100 has 130% lower power consumption.

RTX 2060 Mobile, on the other hand, has a 676.5% 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 RTX 2060 Mobile is our recommended choice as it beats the FirePro W4100 in performance tests.

Be aware that FirePro W4100 is a workstation card while GeForce RTX 2060 Mobile is a notebook one.

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