Matrox G450 vs FirePro W4300

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking524not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency10.39no data
ArchitectureGCN 2.0 (2013−2017)G400 (1999−2002)
GPU code nameBonaireCondor
Market segmentWorkstationDesktop
Release date1 December 2015 (8 years ago)1 January 2001 (23 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 cores768no data
Core clock speed930 MHz125 MHz
Number of transistors2,080 million10 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm180 nm
Power consumption (TDP)50 Wattno data
Texture fill rate44.640.25
Floating-point processing power1.428 TFLOPSno data
ROPs162
TMUs482

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).

InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCI
Length171 mm150 mm
Width1-slot1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNoneNone

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 typeGDDR5DDR
Maximum RAM amount4 GB32 MB
Memory bus width128 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed1500 MHz332 MBps
Memory bandwidth96 GB/s2.656 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 Connectors4x mini-DisplayPort1x DVI, 1x VGA

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_0)6.0
Shader Model6.3no data
OpenGL4.6None
OpenCL2.0None
Vulkan1.2.131N/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 December 2015 1 January 2001
Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 32 MB
Chip lithography 28 nm 180 nm

FirePro W4300 has an age advantage of 14 years, a 12700% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 542.9% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between FirePro W4300 and Matrox G450. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that FirePro W4300 is a workstation graphics card while Matrox G450 is a desktop one.


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