RTX A2000 Mobile vs FirePro W5100

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Aggregate performance score

FirePro W5100
2014
4 GB GDDR5, 50 Watt
7.80

RTX A2000 Mobile outperforms FirePro W5100 by a whopping 227% based on our aggregate benchmark results.

Primary details

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

Place in performance ranking489195
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation2.99no data
ArchitectureGCN 2.0 (2013−2017)Ampere (2020−2022)
GPU code nameBonaireGA107
Market segmentWorkstationLaptop
Release date31 March 2014 (10 years ago)12 April 2021 (3 years ago)
Current price$220 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Detailed specifications

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 cores7682560
Core clock speed930 MHz893 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1687 MHz
Number of transistors2,080 million13,250 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)50 Watt95 Watt (35 - 95 Watt TGP)
Texture fill rate44.64108.6
Floating-point performance1,428 gflopsno data

Form factor & compatibility

Information on FirePro W5100 and RTX A2000 Mobile compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop video cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility). For notebook video cards it's notebook size, connection slot and bus, if the video card is inserted into a slot instead of being soldered to the notebook motherboard.

Laptop sizeno datalarge
Bus supportPCIe 3.0no data
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x16
Length171 mmno data
Width1-slotno data
Form factorfull height / half lengthno data
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno data

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 typeGDDR5GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount4 GB8 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed6000 MHz14000 MHz
Memory bandwidth96 GB/s176.0 GB/s
Shared memoryno data-

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 DisplayPortNo outputs
StereoOutput3D1no data
DisplayPort count4no data
Dual-link DVI support1no data
HD сomponent video output1no data

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_0)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.36.6
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.03.0
Vulkan1.2.1311.2
CUDAno data8.6

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 HD21−24
−262%
76
+262%
1440p12−14
−250%
42
+250%
4K12−14
−242%
41
+242%

Pros & cons summary


Performance score 7.80 25.53
Recency 31 March 2014 12 April 2021
Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 8 GB
Chip lithography 28 nm 8 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 50 Watt 95 Watt

The RTX A2000 Mobile is our recommended choice as it beats the FirePro W5100 in performance tests.

Be aware that FirePro W5100 is a workstation card while RTX A2000 Mobile is a notebook one.


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