FirePro W5170M vs Quadro K620

Place in performance ranking	560	563
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Cost-Effectiveness Evaluation	1.21	0.22
Architecture	Maxwell (2014−2018)	GCN (2011−2017)
GPU code name	GM107	Tropo
Market segment	Workstation	Mobile workstation
Release date	22 July 2014 (9 years ago)	2 October 2015 (8 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$189.89	no data
Current price	$286 (1.5x MSRP)	$1530

Cost-Effectiveness Evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

Quadro K620 has 450% better value for money than W5170M.

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	384	640
Core clock speed	1058 MHz	no data
Boost clock speed	1124 MHz	925 MHz
Number of transistors	1,870 million	1,500 million
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	41 Watt	no data
Texture fill rate	26.98	37.00
Floating-point performance	863.2 gflops	1,184 gflops

Form Factor & Compatibility

Information on Quadro K620 and FirePro W5170M 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 size	no data	large
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	MXM-A (3.0)
Length	160 mm	no data
Width	1" (2.5 cm)	no data
Supplementary power connectors	None	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	128 Bit	GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	2 GB
Memory bus width	128 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1800 MHz	4500 MHz
Memory bandwidth	Up to 29 GB/s	72 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	DVI-I DP	No outputs
Number of simultaneous displays	4	no data
Eyefinity	no data	+

Supported GPU Technologies

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

AppAcceleration	no data	+
3D Vision Pro	+	no data
Mosaic	+	no data
nView Desktop Management	+	no data

API Compatibility

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

DirectX	12	12 (11_1)
Shader Model	5	5.1
OpenGL	4.5	4.6
OpenCL	1.2	1.2
Vulkan	+	1.2.131
CUDA	5.0	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 K620 5.77
+1.9%

W5170M 5.66

Quadro K620 outperforms FirePro W5170M by 2% 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 K620 2233
+1.9%

W5170M 2191

Quadro K620 outperforms FirePro W5170M by 2% 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 K620 6610

W5170M 8330
+26%

FirePro W5170M outperforms Quadro K620 by 26% in GeekBench 5 OpenCL.