GeForce RTX 4060 AD106 vs FirePro W4100

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking697not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency5.47no data
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2011−2020)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameCape VerdeAD106
Market segmentWorkstationDesktop
Release date13 August 2014 (10 years ago)April 2024 (recently)

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 cores5123072
Core clock speed630 MHz1830 MHz
Boost clock speedno data2460 MHz
Number of transistors1,500 million22,900 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)50 Watt115 Watt
Texture fill rate20.16236.2
Floating-point processing power0.6451 TFLOPS15.11 TFLOPS
ROPs1648
TMUs3296
Tensor Coresno data96
Ray Tracing Coresno data24

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
Length171 mmno data
Width1-slot2-slot
Form factorlow profile / half lengthno data
Supplementary power connectorsNone1x 12-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 typeGDDR5GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount2 GB8 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed1000 MHz2125 MHz
Memory bandwidth72 GB/s272.0 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 Connectors4x mini-DisplayPort1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
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 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model5.16.7
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.23.0
Vulkan1.2.1311.3
CUDA-8.9

Pros & cons summary


Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 8 GB
Chip lithography 28 nm 5 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 50 Watt 115 Watt

FirePro W4100 has 130% lower power consumption.

RTX 4060 AD106, on the other hand, has a 300% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 460% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between FirePro W4100 and GeForce RTX 4060 AD106. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that FirePro W4100 is a workstation graphics card while GeForce RTX 4060 AD106 is a desktop one.


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