FirePro W2100 vs Radeon R5 Graphics

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated848
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data6.17
ArchitectureGCN 2.0 (2013−2017)GCN 1.0 (2011−2020)
GPU code nameSpectre SLOland
Market segmentDesktopWorkstation
Release date17 September 2014 (10 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 cores256320
Core clock speed497 MHz630 MHz
Boost clock speed720 MHz680 MHz
Number of transistors2,410 million950 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)15 Watt26 Watt
Texture fill rate7.95213.60
Floating-point processing power0.2545 TFLOPS0.4352 TFLOPS
ROPs48
TMUs1620

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 supportno dataPCIe 3.0
InterfaceIGPPCIe 3.0 x8
WidthIGP1-slot
Form factorno datalow profile / half length
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

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 typeSystem SharedDDR3
Maximum RAM amountSystem Shared2 GB
Memory bus widthSystem Shared128 Bit
Memory clock speedSystem Shared900 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data28.8 GB/s
Shared memoryno 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 ConnectorsNo outputs2x DisplayPort
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 (12_0)12 (11_1)
Shader Model6.05.1
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.01.2
Vulkan1.2.1311.2.131

Pros & cons summary


Recency 17 September 2014 12 August 2014
Power consumption (TDP) 15 Watt 26 Watt

R5 Graphics has an age advantage of 1 month, and 73.3% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon R5 Graphics and FirePro W2100. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon R5 Graphics is a desktop card while FirePro W2100 is a workstation one.


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