FirePro W2100 vs GeForce GTX 980 SLI Mobile

Aggregate performance score

We've compared GeForce GTX 980 SLI Mobile with FirePro W2100, including specs and performance data.

GTX 980 SLI Mobile
2015
2x 8 GB GDDR5, 330 Watt
39.20
+1575%

GTX 980 SLI Mobile outperforms W2100 by a whopping 1575% based on our aggregate benchmark results.

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking110840
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency8.576.49
ArchitectureMaxwell (2014−2017)GCN 1.0 (2011−2020)
GPU code nameN16E-GXX SLIOland
Market segmentLaptopWorkstation
Release date22 September 2015 (9 years ago)12 August 2014 (10 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 cores4096320
Core clock speed1126 MHz630 MHz
Boost clock speed1228 MHz680 MHz
Number of transistors10400 Million950 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)330 Watt26 Watt
Texture fill rateno data13.60
Floating-point processing powerno data0.4352 TFLOPS
ROPsno data8
TMUsno data20

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).

Laptop sizelargeno data
Bus supportno dataPCIe 3.0
Interfaceno dataPCIe 3.0 x8
Widthno data1-slot
Form factorno datalow profile / half length
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone
SLI options+-

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 typeGDDR5DDR3
Maximum RAM amount2x 8 GB2 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed3500 MHz900 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data28.8 GB/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 Connectorsno data2x DisplayPort
G-SYNC support+-
DisplayPort countno data2
Dual-link DVI support-+

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

AppAcceleration-+

API compatibility

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

DirectX12_112 (11_1)
Shader Modelno data5.1
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data1.2
Vulkan-1.2.131
CUDA+-

Synthetic benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmark results comparison. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.


Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark score. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

GTX 980 SLI Mobile 39.20
+1575%
FirePro W2100 2.34

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics

Fire Strike is a DirectX 11 benchmark for gaming PCs. It features two separate tests displaying a fight between a humanoid and a fiery creature made of lava. Using 1920x1080 resolution, Fire Strike shows off some realistic graphics and is quite taxing on hardware.

GTX 980 SLI Mobile 25453
+2246%
FirePro W2100 1085

3DMark Cloud Gate GPU

Cloud Gate is an outdated DirectX 11 feature level 10 benchmark that was used for home PCs and basic notebooks. It displays a few scenes of some weird space teleportation device launching spaceships into unknown, using fixed resolution of 1280x720. Just like Ice Storm benchmark, it has been discontinued in January 2020 and replaced by 3DMark Night Raid.

GTX 980 SLI Mobile 155238
+1898%
FirePro W2100 7771

Gaming performance

Let's see how good the compared graphics cards are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.

Average FPS across all PC games

Here are the average frames per second in a large set of popular games across different resolutions:

Full HD133
+850%
14
−850%
4K72
+1700%
4−5
−1700%

FPS performance in popular games

Full HD
Low Preset

Cyberpunk 2077 65−70
+1260%
5−6
−1260%

Full HD
Medium Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 80−85
+925%
8−9
−925%
Assassin's Creed Valhalla 65−70
+2133%
3−4
−2133%
Battlefield 5 120−130
+4033%
3−4
−4033%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 75−80
+1200%
6−7
−1200%
Cyberpunk 2077 65−70
+1260%
5−6
−1260%
Far Cry 5 80−85
+2000%
4−5
−2000%
Far Cry New Dawn 95−100
+1500%
6−7
−1500%
Forza Horizon 4 190−200
+1627%
10−12
−1627%
Hitman 3 80−85
+1071%
7−8
−1071%
Horizon Zero Dawn 160−170
+753%
18−20
−753%
Metro Exodus 120−130
+12300%
1−2
−12300%
Red Dead Redemption 2 90−95
+1720%
5−6
−1720%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 140−150
+1182%
10−12
−1182%
Watch Dogs: Legion 120−130
+246%
35−40
−246%

Full HD
High Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 80−85
+925%
8−9
−925%
Assassin's Creed Valhalla 65−70
+2133%
3−4
−2133%
Battlefield 5 120−130
+4033%
3−4
−4033%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 75−80
+1200%
6−7
−1200%
Cyberpunk 2077 65−70
+1260%
5−6
−1260%
Far Cry 5 80−85
+2000%
4−5
−2000%
Far Cry New Dawn 95−100
+1500%
6−7
−1500%
Forza Horizon 4 190−200
+1627%
10−12
−1627%
Hitman 3 80−85
+1071%
7−8
−1071%
Horizon Zero Dawn 160−170
+753%
18−20
−753%
Metro Exodus 120−130
+12300%
1−2
−12300%
Red Dead Redemption 2 90−95
+1720%
5−6
−1720%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 140−150
+1182%
10−12
−1182%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 137
+954%
12−14
−954%
Watch Dogs: Legion 120−130
+246%
35−40
−246%

Full HD
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 80−85
+925%
8−9
−925%
Assassin's Creed Valhalla 65−70
+2133%
3−4
−2133%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 75−80
+1200%
6−7
−1200%
Cyberpunk 2077 65−70
+1260%
5−6
−1260%
Far Cry 5 80−85
+2000%
4−5
−2000%
Forza Horizon 4 190−200
+1627%
10−12
−1627%
Hitman 3 80−85
+1071%
7−8
−1071%
Horizon Zero Dawn 160−170
+753%
18−20
−753%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 140−150
+1182%
10−12
−1182%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 74
+469%
12−14
−469%
Watch Dogs: Legion 120−130
+246%
35−40
−246%

Full HD
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2 90−95
+1720%
5−6
−1720%

1440p
High Preset

Battlefield 5 70−75
+1750%
4−5
−1750%
Far Cry New Dawn 55−60
+1867%
3−4
−1867%

1440p
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 40−45
+2000%
2−3
−2000%
Assassin's Creed Valhalla 40−45
+2000%
2−3
−2000%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 45−50
+4400%
1−2
−4400%
Cyberpunk 2077 30−33
+2900%
1−2
−2900%
Far Cry 5 45−50
+1400%
3−4
−1400%
Forza Horizon 4 210−220
+1708%
12−14
−1708%
Hitman 3 50−55
+614%
7−8
−614%
Horizon Zero Dawn 80−85
+1300%
6−7
−1300%
Metro Exodus 70−75
+1700%
4−5
−1700%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 90−95
+1760%
5−6
−1760%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 55−60
+5500%
1−2
−5500%
Watch Dogs: Legion 190−200
+1362%
12−14
−1362%

1440p
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2 65−70
+1220%
5−6
−1220%

4K
High Preset

Battlefield 5 35−40 0−1
Far Cry New Dawn 30−35
+3100%
1−2
−3100%
Hitman 3 30−35
+3000%
1−2
−3000%
Horizon Zero Dawn 180−190
+1700%
10−11
−1700%
Metro Exodus 45−50
+2350%
2−3
−2350%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 51
+1600%
3−4
−1600%

4K
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 24−27
+1200%
2−3
−1200%
Assassin's Creed Valhalla 24−27
+2300%
1−2
−2300%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 24−27
+2400%
1−2
−2400%
Cyberpunk 2077 12−14 0−1
Far Cry 5 21−24
+2200%
1−2
−2200%
Forza Horizon 4 50−55
+1700%
3−4
−1700%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 50−55
+1667%
3−4
−1667%
Watch Dogs: Legion 18−20 0−1

4K
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2 30−35
+1033%
3−4
−1033%

This is how GTX 980 SLI Mobile and FirePro W2100 compete in popular games:

  • GTX 980 SLI Mobile is 850% faster in 1080p
  • GTX 980 SLI Mobile is 1700% faster in 4K

Here's the range of performance differences observed across popular games:

  • in Metro Exodus, with 1080p resolution and the Medium Preset, the GTX 980 SLI Mobile is 12300% faster.

All in all, in popular games:

  • Without exception, GTX 980 SLI Mobile surpassed FirePro W2100 in all 56 of our tests.

Pros & cons summary


Performance score 39.20 2.34
Recency 22 September 2015 12 August 2014
Power consumption (TDP) 330 Watt 26 Watt

GTX 980 SLI Mobile has a 1575.2% higher aggregate performance score, and an age advantage of 1 year.

FirePro W2100, on the other hand, has 1169.2% lower power consumption.

The GeForce GTX 980 SLI Mobile is our recommended choice as it beats the FirePro W2100 in performance tests.

Be aware that GeForce GTX 980 SLI Mobile is a notebook card while FirePro W2100 is a workstation one.


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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 SLI Mobile
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