Radeon Vega 6 Embedded vs FirePro W5100

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking521not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency10.72no data
ArchitectureGCN 2.0 (2013−2017)GCN 5.0 (2017−2020)
GPU code nameBonaireRaven
Market segmentWorkstationDesktop
Release date31 March 2014 (10 years ago)10 May 2018 (6 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 cores768384
Core clock speed930 MHz300 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1280 MHz
Number of transistors2,080 million4,940 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)50 Watt15 Watt
Texture fill rate44.6430.72
Floating-point processing power1.428 TFLOPS0.983 TFLOPS
ROPs168
TMUs4824

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 x16IGP
Length171 mmno data
Width1-slotIGP
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 typeGDDR5System Shared
Maximum RAM amount4 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width128 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed1500 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth96 GB/sno 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 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)12 (12_1)
Shader Model6.36.4
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.02.0
Vulkan1.2.1311.2.131

Pros & cons summary


Recency 31 March 2014 10 May 2018
Chip lithography 28 nm 14 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 50 Watt 15 Watt

Vega 6 Embedded has an age advantage of 4 years, a 100% more advanced lithography process, and 233.3% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between FirePro W5100 and Radeon Vega 6 Embedded. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that FirePro W5100 is a workstation graphics card while Radeon Vega 6 Embedded is a desktop one.


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