GeForce RTX 4090 vs FirePro W5000 DVI

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated1
Place by popularitynot in top-1006
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data18.80
Power efficiencyno data15.38
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2011−2020)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code namePitcairnAD102
Market segmentWorkstationDesktop
Release date25 February 2013 (11 years ago)20 September 2022 (2 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$599 $1,599

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 cores76816384
Core clock speed825 MHz2235 MHz
Boost clock speedno data2520 MHz
Number of transistors2,800 million76,300 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)75 Watt450 Watt
Texture fill rate39.601,290
Floating-point processing power1.267 TFLOPS82.58 TFLOPS
ROPs32176
TMUs48512
Tensor Coresno data512
Ray Tracing Coresno data128

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 x16
Length191 mm304 mm
Width1-slot3-slot
Form factorfull height / half lengthno data
Supplementary power connectorsNone1x 16-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 typeGDDR5GDDR6X
Maximum RAM amount2 GB24 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit384 Bit
Memory clock speed800 MHz1313 MHz
Memory bandwidth102.4 GB/s1.01 TB/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 Connectors2x DVI1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI-+
Dual-link DVI support+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_1)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model5.16.8
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.23.0
Vulkan1.2.1311.3
CUDA-8.9

Pros & cons summary


Recency 25 February 2013 20 September 2022
Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 24 GB
Chip lithography 28 nm 5 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 75 Watt 450 Watt

W5000 DVI has 500% lower power consumption.

RTX 4090, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 9 years, a 1100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 460% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between FirePro W5000 DVI and GeForce RTX 4090. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that FirePro W5000 DVI is a workstation graphics card while GeForce RTX 4090 is a desktop one.


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AMD FirePro W5000 DVI
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