FirePro W2100 vs W600

Place in performance ranking	632	809
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Value for money	0.52	0.39
Architecture	GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)	GCN (2011−2017)
GPU code name	Cape Verde	Mars
Market segment	Workstation	Workstation
Release date	13 June 2012 (11 years old)	2 October 2015 (8 years old)
Launch price (MSRP)	$599	no data
Current price	$358 (0.6x MSRP)	$123

Value for money

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

FirePro W600 has 33% better value for money than FirePro W2100.

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	320
Core clock speed	750 MHz	680 MHz
Number of transistors	1,500 million	950 million
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	75 Watt	26 Watt
Texture fill rate	24.00	13.60
Floating-point performance	768.0 gflops	435.2 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 3.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x8
Length	163 mm	no data
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	DDR3
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	2 GB
Memory bus width	128 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	4000 MHz	1800 MHz
Memory bandwidth	64 GB/s	28.8 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	6x mini-DisplayPort	2x DisplayPort
DisplayPort count	no data	2
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	12 (11_1)	12 (11_1)
Shader Model	5.1	5.1
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
OpenCL	1.2	1.2
Vulkan	1.2.131	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 W600 4.31
+85%

FirePro W2100 2.33

W600 outperforms W2100 by 85% 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 W600 1671
+85%

FirePro W2100 903

W600 outperforms W2100 by 85% in Passmark.

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 W600 6231
+67.7%

FirePro W2100 3715

W600 outperforms W2100 by 68% in GeekBench 5 OpenCL.