AMD FirePro W2100: specs and benchmarks

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Summary

AMD started FirePro W2100 sales 2 October 2015. This is a GCN architecture desktop card based on 28 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at designers. 2 GB of DDR3 memory clocked at 1.8 GHz are supplied, and together with 128 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 28.8 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is single-slot card attached via PCIe 3.0 x8 interface. No additional power connector is required, and power consumption is at 26 Watt.

It provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at 2.33% of a leader's which is NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090.

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General info

Some basic facts about FirePro W2100: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in performance ranking805
Place by popularitynot in top-100
Value for money0.38
ArchitectureGCN (2011−2017)
GPU code nameMars
Market segmentWorkstation
Release date2 October 2015 (8 years old)
Current price$123 of 168889 (A100 PCIe 80 GB)
Value for money

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

Technical specs

FirePro W2100's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of FirePro W2100's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines / CUDA cores320of 20480 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)
Core clock speed680 MHzof 2610 (Radeon RX 6500 XT)
Boost clock speed680 MHzof 3599 (Radeon RX 7990 XTX)
Number of transistors950 millionof 14400 (GeForce GTX 1080 SLI Mobile)
Manufacturing process technology28 nmof 4 (GeForce RTX 4080)
Power consumption (TDP)26 Wattof 2400 (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)
Texture fill rate13.60of 969.9 (H100 SXM5 96 GB)
Floating-point performance435.2 gflopsof 16384 (Radeon Pro Duo)

Size and compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of FirePro W2100 and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).

Bus supportPCIe 3.0
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x8
Width1-slot
Form factorlow profile / half length
Supplementary power connectorsNone

Memory

Parameters of memory installed on FirePro W2100: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.

Memory typeDDR3
Maximum RAM amount2 GBof 192 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Memory bus width128 Bitof 19000 (GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB)
Memory clock speed1800 MHzof 23000 (GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER)
Memory bandwidth28.8 GB/sof 3276 (Aldebaran)
Shared memory-

Video outputs and ports

Types and number of video connectors present on FirePro W2100. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.

Display Connectors2x DisplayPort
DisplayPort count2
Dual-link DVI support1

Technologies

Technological solutions and APIs supported by FirePro W2100. You'll probably need this information if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

AppAcceleration+

API support

APIs supported by FirePro W2100, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX12 (11_1)
Shader Model5.1
OpenGL4.6
OpenCL1.2
Vulkan1.2.131

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of FirePro W2100. 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.

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 W2100 903

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics

Fire Strike is a DirectX 11 benchmark for gaming PCs. It features two separate tests displaying a fight between a humanoid and a fiery creature made of lava. Using 1920x1080 resolution, Fire Strike shows off some realistic graphics and is quite taxing on hardware.

Benchmark coverage: 14%

FirePro W2100 1085

3DMark Cloud Gate GPU

Cloud Gate is an outdated DirectX 11 feature level 10 benchmark that was used for home PCs and basic notebooks. It displays a few scenes of some weird space teleportation device launching spaceships into unknown, using fixed resolution of 1280x720. Just like Ice Storm benchmark, it has been discontinued in January 2020 and replaced by 3DMark Night Raid.

Benchmark coverage: 14%

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GeekBench 5 OpenCL

Geekbench 5 is a widespread graphics card benchmark combined from 11 different test scenarios. All these scenarios rely on direct usage of GPU's processing power, no 3D rendering is involved. This variation uses OpenCL API by Khronos Group.

Benchmark coverage: 9%

FirePro W2100 3715

Unigine Heaven 3.0

This is an old DirectX 11 benchmark using Unigine, a 3D game engine by eponymous Russian company. It displays a fantasy medieval town sprawling over several flying islands. Version 3.0 was released in 2012, and in 2013 it was superseded by Heaven 4.0, which introduced several slight improvements, including a newer version of Unigine.

Benchmark coverage: 4%

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Gaming performance

Let's see how good FirePro W2100 is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in frames per second. Comparisons with game system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect reality inaccurately.

Average FPS across all PC games

Here are the average frames per second in a large set of popular modern games across different resolutions:

Full HD12
4K2

Performance in popular games

Full HD
Low Preset

Cyberpunk 2077 5−6

Full HD
Medium Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 3−4
Battlefield 5 4−5
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 10−12
Cyberpunk 2077 5−6
Far Cry 5 2−3
Far Cry New Dawn 2−3
Forza Horizon 4 7−8
Hitman 3 4−5
Horizon Zero Dawn 3−4
Red Dead Redemption 2 5−6
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 8−9

Full HD
High Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 3−4
Battlefield 5 4−5
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 10−12
Cyberpunk 2077 5−6
Far Cry 5 2−3
Far Cry New Dawn 2−3
Forza Horizon 4 7−8
Hitman 3 4−5
Horizon Zero Dawn 3−4
Metro Exodus 3−4
Red Dead Redemption 2 5−6
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 8−9
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 5−6

Full HD
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 3−4
Battlefield 5 4−5
Cyberpunk 2077 5−6
Far Cry 5 2−3
Far Cry New Dawn 2−3
Forza Horizon 4 7−8
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 5−6

1440p
High Preset

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 5−6
Hitman 3 5−6
Horizon Zero Dawn 8−9
Metro Exodus 0−1
Red Dead Redemption 2 1−2
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 5−6

1440p
Ultra Preset

Cyberpunk 2077 1−2
Far Cry 5 3−4
Forza Horizon 4 1−2

4K
High Preset

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2−3
Hitman 3 2−3
Horizon Zero Dawn 6−7
Red Dead Redemption 2 1−2

4K
Ultra Preset

Far Cry 5 3−4
Far Cry New Dawn 5−6
Forza Horizon 4 2−3

Relative perfomance

Overall FirePro W2100 performance compared to nearest competitors among server video cards.


NVIDIA equivalent

According to our data, the closest NVIDIA alternative to FirePro W2100 is GRID K220Q, which is faster by 1% and higher by 4 positions in our ranking.

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Similar GPUs

Here is our recommendation of several graphics cards that are more or less close in performance to the one reviewed.

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Recommended processors

These processors are most commonly used with FirePro W2100 according to our statistics.

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