GeForce RTX 4090 vs FirePro D300

Place in performance ranking	420	1
Place by popularity	not in top-100	7
Value for money	3.97	15.02
Architecture	GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)	Ada Lovelace
GPU code name	Pitcairn	AD102-300-A1
Market segment	Workstation	Desktop
Release date	18 January 2014 (10 years ago)	20 September 2022 (1 year ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	no data	$1,599
Current price	$260	$1756 (1.1x MSRP)

Value for money

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

RTX 4090 has 278% better value for money than FirePro D300.

Technical specs

General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	1280	16384
Core clock speed	850 MHz	2235 MHz
Boost clock speed	no data	2520 MHz
Number of transistors	2,800 million	76,300 million
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	150 Watt	450 Watt
Texture fill rate	68.00	1,290
Floating-point performance	2,176 gflops	no data

Size and 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).

Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 4.0 x16
Length	242 mm	304 mm
Width	1-slot	3-slot
Supplementary power connectors	no data	1x 16-pin

Memory

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 type	GDDR5	GDDR6X
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	24 GB
Memory bus width	256 Bit	384 Bit
Memory clock speed	5080 MHz	21000 MHz
Memory bandwidth	162.6 GB/s	1,008 GB/s
Shared memory	no data	-

Video outputs and ports

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 Connectors	4x DisplayPort	1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI	no data	+

API support

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

DirectX	12 (11_1)	12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model	5.1	6.6
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
OpenCL	1.2	3.0
Vulkan	1.2.131	1.3
CUDA	no data	8.9

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 HD	24−27 −1004%	265 +1004%
1440p	18−21 −1078%	212 +1078%
4K	14−16 −971%	150 +971%

Advantages and disadvantages

Performance score	9.80	100.00
Recency	18 January 2014	20 September 2022
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	24 GB
Chip lithography	28 nm	5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	150 Watt	450 Watt