GeForce 930MX vs FirePro W9000

Place in performance ranking	315	699
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	3.17	0.08
Architecture	GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)	Maxwell (2014−2018)
GPU code name	Tahiti	N16S-GMR
Market segment	Workstation	Laptop
Release date	14 June 2012 (11 years ago)	10 March 2016 (8 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$3,999	no data
Current price	$877 (0.2x MSRP)	$1808

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

FirePro W9000 has 3863% better value for money than GeForce 930MX.

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 cores	2048	384
Core clock speed	975 MHz	952 MHz
Boost clock speed	no data	1020 MHz
Number of transistors	4,313 million	no data
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	350 Watt	17 Watt
Texture fill rate	124.8	24.48
Floating-point performance	3,994 gflops	783.4 gflops

Form factor & compatibility

Information on FirePro W9000 and GeForce 930MX 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.

Bus support	PCIe 3.0	PCI Express 3.0
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x8
Length	279 mm	no data
Width	2-slot	no data
Form factor	full height / full length	no data
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin	None

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 type	GDDR5	DDR3, GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount	6 GB	2 GB
Memory bus width	384 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	5500 MHz	2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth	264 GB/s	14.4 GB/s
Shared memory	no 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 Connectors	6x mini-DisplayPort, 1x SDI	No outputs
StereoOutput3D	1	no data
Dual-link DVI support	1	no data

Supported technologies

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

GPU Boost	no data	2.0
Optimus	no data	+
GameWorks	no data	+

API compatibility

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

DirectX	12 (11_1)	12 (11_0)
Shader Model	5.1	5.1
OpenGL	4.6	4.5
OpenCL	1.2	1.2
Vulkan	1.2.131	1.1.126
CUDA	no data	+

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 W9000 15.86
+375%

GeForce 930MX 3.34

FirePro W9000 outperforms GeForce 930MX by 375% 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 W9000 6138
+374%

GeForce 930MX 1294

FirePro W9000 outperforms GeForce 930MX by 374% 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 W9000 31775
+478%

GeForce 930MX 5494

FirePro W9000 outperforms GeForce 930MX by 478% in GeekBench 5 OpenCL.