ATI WinBoost vs FirePro W4300

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking	528	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Power efficiency	10.46	no data
Architecture	GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)	Mach (1992−1997)
GPU code name	Bonaire	Mach64
Market segment	Workstation	Desktop
Release date	1 December 2015 (8 years ago)	1 November 1995 (29 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	no data	$229

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	768	no data
Core clock speed	930 MHz	40 MHz
Number of transistors	2,080 million	1 million
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	600 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	50 Watt	no data
Texture fill rate	44.64	no data
Floating-point processing power	1.428 TFLOPS	no data
ROPs	16	1
TMUs	48	no data

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).

Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCI
Length	171 mm	no data
Width	1-slot	1-slot
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	EDO
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	2 MB
Memory bus width	128 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	1500 MHz	40 MHz
Memory bandwidth	96 GB/s	320.0 MB/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 Connectors

4x mini-DisplayPort

1x VGA

API compatibility

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

DirectX	12 (12_0)	N/A
Shader Model	6.3	no data
OpenGL	4.6	N/A
OpenCL	2.0	N/A
Vulkan	1.2.131	N/A

Pros & cons summary

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Recency	1 December 2015	1 November 1995
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	2 MB
Chip lithography	28 nm	600 nm

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