FirePro W2100 vs Quadro K5000

Place in performance ranking	405	809
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Value for money	3.96	0.39
Architecture	Kepler (2012−2018)	GCN (2011−2017)
GPU code name	GK104	Mars
Market segment	Workstation	Workstation
Release date	17 August 2012 (11 years ago)	2 October 2015 (8 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$2,499	no data
Current price	$289 (0.1x MSRP)	$123

Value for money

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

Quadro K5000 has 915% 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	1536	320
Core clock speed	706 MHz	680 MHz
Boost clock speed	no data	680 MHz
Number of transistors	3,540 million	950 million
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	122 Watt	26 Watt
Texture fill rate	90.37	13.60
Floating-point performance	2,169 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 2.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x8
Length	267 mm	no data
Width	2-slot	1-slot
Form factor	no data	low profile / half length
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin	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	4 GB	2 GB
Memory bus width	256 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	5400 MHz	1800 MHz
Memory bandwidth	172.8 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	2x DVI, 2x 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_0)	12 (11_1)
Shader Model	5.1	5.1
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
OpenCL	1.2	1.2
Vulkan	+	1.2.131
CUDA	3.0	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.

Quadro K5000 10.30
+342%

FirePro W2100 2.33

Quadro K5000 outperforms FirePro W2100 by 342% 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%

Quadro K5000 3987
+342%

FirePro W2100 903

Quadro K5000 outperforms FirePro W2100 by 342% 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%

Quadro K5000 11376
+206%

FirePro W2100 3715

Quadro K5000 outperforms FirePro W2100 by 206% in GeekBench 5 OpenCL.