Quadro Plex 2200 D2 vs FirePro W5100

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking516not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency11.16no data
ArchitectureGCN 2.0 (2013−2017)Tesla 2.0 (2007−2013)
GPU code nameBonaireGT200B
Market segmentWorkstationWorkstation
Release date31 March 2014 (10 years ago)25 July 2008 (16 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 cores768240
Core clock speed930 MHz648 MHz
Number of transistors2,080 million1,400 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm55 nm
Power consumption (TDP)50 Watt640 Watt
Texture fill rate44.6451.84
Floating-point processing power1.428 TFLOPS0.6221 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).

Bus supportPCIe 3.0no data
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCIe 2.0 x16
Length171 mm522 mm
Width1-slotno data
Form factorfull height / 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 typeGDDR5GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount4 GB4 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit512 Bit
Memory clock speed1500 MHz800 MHz
Memory bandwidth96 GB/s102.4 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 DisplayPortNo outputs
StereoOutput3D+-
DisplayPort count4no data
Dual-link DVI support+-
HD сomponent video output+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_0)11.1 (10_0)
Shader Model6.34.0
OpenGL4.63.3
OpenCL2.01.1
Vulkan1.2.131N/A
CUDA-1.3

Pros & cons summary


Recency 31 March 2014 25 July 2008
Chip lithography 28 nm 55 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 50 Watt 640 Watt

FirePro W5100 has an age advantage of 5 years, a 96.4% more advanced lithography process, and 1180% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between FirePro W5100 and Quadro Plex 2200 D2. We've got no test results to judge.


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