FirePro S10000 Passive 12GB vs Quadro K2100M

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking718not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation0.63no data
Power efficiency4.43no data
ArchitectureKepler (2012−2018)GCN 1.0 (2011−2020)
GPU code nameGK106Tahiti
Market segmentMobile workstationWorkstation
Release date23 July 2013 (11 years ago)1 March 2014 (10 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$84.95 $3,599

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 cores5761792
Core clock speed667 MHz825 MHz
Boost clock speedno data950 MHz
Number of transistors2,540 million4,313 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)55 Watt375 Watt
Texture fill rate32.02106.4
Floating-point processing power0.7684 TFLOPS3.405 TFLOPS
ROPs1632
TMUs48112

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 sizemedium sizedno data
InterfaceMXM-A (3.0)PCIe 3.0 x16
Lengthno data305 mm
Widthno data2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno data2x 8-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 typeGDDR5GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount2 GB6 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit384 Bit
Memory clock speed752 MHz1250 MHz
Memory bandwidth48.0 GB/s240.0 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 outputs1x DVI, 1x mini-DisplayPort
Display Port1.2no data

Supported technologies

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

Optimus+-
3D Vision Pro+no data
Mosaic+no data
nView Display Management+no data
Optimus+no data

API compatibility

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

DirectX1212 (11_1)
Shader Model5.15.1
OpenGL4.54.6
OpenCL1.21.2
Vulkan+1.2.131
CUDA+-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 23 July 2013 1 March 2014
Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 6 GB
Power consumption (TDP) 55 Watt 375 Watt

K2100M has 581.8% lower power consumption.

S10000 Passive 12GB, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 7 months, and a 200% higher maximum VRAM amount.

We couldn't decide between Quadro K2100M and FirePro S10000 Passive 12GB. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Quadro K2100M is a mobile workstation card while FirePro S10000 Passive 12GB is a workstation one.


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NVIDIA Quadro K2100M
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