FirePro W4100 vs V5900

Place in performance ranking	700	655
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Value for money	1.15	0.17
Architecture	TeraScale 3 (2010−2013)	GCN (2011−2017)
GPU code name	Cayman	Cape Verde
Market segment	Workstation	Workstation
Release date	24 May 2011 (12 years ago)	2 October 2015 (8 years ago)
Current price	$89	$916

Value for money

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

FirePro V5900 has 576% better value for money than FirePro W4100.

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	512	512
Core clock speed	600 MHz	630 MHz
Number of transistors	2,640 million	1,500 million
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	75 Watt	50 Watt
Texture fill rate	19.20	20.16
Floating-point performance	614.4 gflops	645.1 gflops

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).

Bus support	no data	PCIe 3.0
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
Length	230 mm	171 mm
Width	1-slot	1-slot
Form factor	no data	low profile / half length
Supplementary power connectors	None	None

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	GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	2 GB
Memory bus width	256 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	2000 MHz	4000 MHz
Memory bandwidth	64 GB/s	72 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	1x DVI	4x mini-DisplayPort
Dual-link DVI support	no data	1

Technologies

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

AppAcceleration

no data

API support

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

DirectX	11.2 (11_0)	12 (11_1)
Shader Model	5.0	5.1
OpenGL	4.4	4.6
OpenCL	1.2	1.2
Vulkan	N/A	1.2.131

Synthetic benchmark performance

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

Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark performance 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.

FirePro V5900 3.28

FirePro W4100 3.95
+20.4%

W4100 outperforms V5900 by 20% based on our aggregated benchmark results.

Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark, part of Passmark PerformanceTest suite. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.

Benchmark coverage: 25%

FirePro V5900 1269

FirePro W4100 1528
+20.4%

W4100 outperforms V5900 by 20% in Passmark.