GeForce RTX 5070 vs FirePro W8100

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking294not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency5.93no data
ArchitectureGCN 2.0 (2013−2017)Blackwell 2.0 (2025)
GPU code nameHawaiiGB205
Market segmentWorkstationDesktop
Release date23 June 2014 (10 years ago)2025

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 cores25606400
Core clock speed824 MHz2235 MHz
Boost clock speedno data2520 MHz
Number of transistors6,200 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology28 nm0 nm
Power consumption (TDP)220 Watt220 Watt
Texture fill rate131.8504.0
Floating-point processing power4.219 TFLOPS32.26 TFLOPS
ROPs6464
TMUs160200
Tensor Coresno data200
Ray Tracing Coresno data50

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 5.0 x16
Length279 mmno data
Width2-slot2-slot
Form factorfull height / full lengthno data
Supplementary power connectors2x 6-pin1x 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 typeGDDR5GDDR7
Maximum RAM amount8 GB12 GB
Memory bus width512 Bit192 Bit
Memory clock speed1250 MHz2500 MHz
Memory bandwidth320 GB/s120.0 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 DisplayPort, 1x SDI1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI-+
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 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.36.7
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.03.0
Vulkan1.2.1311.3
CUDA-9.1

Pros & cons summary


Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 12 GB

RTX 5070 has a 50% higher maximum VRAM amount.

We couldn't decide between FirePro W8100 and GeForce RTX 5070. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that FirePro W8100 is a workstation graphics card while GeForce RTX 5070 is a desktop one.


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AMD FirePro W8100
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