FirePro S10000 Passive vs FirePro V4900

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking821not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency2.39no data
ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)GCN 1.0 (2011−2020)
GPU code nameTurksTahiti
Market segmentWorkstationWorkstation
Release date1 November 2011 (13 years ago)12 November 2012 (12 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$3,599

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 cores4803584
Core clock speed800 MHz825 MHz
Boost clock speedno data950 MHz
Number of transistors716 million4,313 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)75 Watt750 Watt
Texture fill rate19.20106.4
Floating-point processing power0.768 TFLOPS3.405 TFLOPS
ROPs832
TMUs24112

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
InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x16
Length163 mm305 mm
Width1-slot2-slot
Form factorno datafull height / full length
Supplementary power connectorsNone2x 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 amount1 GB6 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit384 Bit
Memory clock speed1000 MHz1250 MHz
Memory bandwidth64 GB/s480 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 Connectors1x DVI, 2x DisplayPort1x DVI, 1x mini-DisplayPort
Dual-link DVI support-+

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.2 (11_0)12 (11_1)
Shader Model5.05.1
OpenGL4.44.6
OpenCL1.21.2
VulkanN/A1.2.131

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 November 2011 12 November 2012
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 6 GB
Chip lithography 40 nm 28 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 75 Watt 750 Watt

FirePro V4900 has 900% lower power consumption.

S10000 Passive, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 1 year, a 500% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 42.9% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between FirePro V4900 and FirePro S10000 Passive. We've got no test results to judge.


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