Radeon R9 370X vs FirePro W4300

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking530not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency10.30no data
ArchitectureGCN 2.0 (2013−2017)GCN 1.0 (2011−2020)
GPU code nameBonaireTrinidad
Market segmentWorkstationDesktop
Release date1 December 2015 (9 years ago)27 August 2015 (9 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$199

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 cores7681280
Core clock speed930 MHz980 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1030 MHz
Number of transistors2,080 million2,800 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)50 Watt180 Watt
Texture fill rate44.6482.40
Floating-point processing power1.428 TFLOPS2.637 TFLOPS
ROPs1632
TMUs4880

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).

InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x16
Length171 mm221 mm
Width1-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNone2x 6-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 amount4 GB2 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed1500 MHz1400 MHz
Memory bandwidth96 GB/s179.2 GB/s

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, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
HDMI-+

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_0)12 (11_1)
Shader Model6.35.1
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.01.2
Vulkan1.2.1311.2.131

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 December 2015 27 August 2015
Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 2 GB
Power consumption (TDP) 50 Watt 180 Watt

FirePro W4300 has an age advantage of 3 months, a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and 260% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between FirePro W4300 and Radeon R9 370X. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that FirePro W4300 is a workstation graphics card while Radeon R9 370X is a desktop one.


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