Matrox G550 PCIe vs FirePro W4100

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking692not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency5.66no data
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2011−2020)G500 (2001−2005)
GPU code nameCape VerdeCondor
Market segmentWorkstationDesktop
Release date13 August 2014 (10 years ago)13 July 2005 (19 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 cores512no data
Core clock speed630 MHz125 MHz
Number of transistors1,500 million10 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm180 nm
Power consumption (TDP)50 Wattno data
Texture fill rate20.160.25
Floating-point processing power0.6451 TFLOPSno data
ROPs162
TMUs322

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 1.0 x1
Length171 mm112 mm
Width1-slot1-slot
Form factorlow profile / half lengthno data
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno 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 typeGDDR5DDR
Maximum RAM amount2 GB32 MB
Memory bus width128 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed1000 MHz166 MHz
Memory bandwidth72 GB/s2.656 GB/s
Shared memory-no data

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-DisplayPort2x DVI
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)8.0
Shader Model5.1no data
OpenGL4.61.5
OpenCL1.2N/A
Vulkan1.2.131N/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 13 August 2014 13 July 2005
Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 32 MB
Chip lithography 28 nm 180 nm

FirePro W4100 has an age advantage of 9 years, a 6300% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 542.9% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between FirePro W4100 and Matrox G550 PCIe. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that FirePro W4100 is a workstation graphics card while Matrox G550 PCIe is a desktop one.


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