FirePro W2100 vs Quadro P5000 Mobile

Place in performance ranking	173	809
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Value for money	5.55	0.39
Architecture	Pascal (2016−2021)	GCN (2011−2017)
GPU code name	N17E-Q5	Mars
Market segment	Mobile workstation	Workstation
Release date	11 January 2017 (7 years ago)	2 October 2015 (8 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$1,885	no data
Current price	$2137 (1.1x MSRP)	$123

Value for money

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

P5000 Mobile has 1323% 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	2048	320
Core clock speed	1164 MHz	680 MHz
Boost clock speed	1506 MHz	680 MHz
Number of transistors	7,200 million	950 million
Manufacturing process technology	16 nm	28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	100 Watt	26 Watt
Texture fill rate	202.5	13.60
Floating-point performance	6,197 gflops	435.2 gflops

Size and compatibility

Information on Quadro P5000 Mobile and FirePro W2100 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	large	no data
Bus support	no data	PCIe 3.0
Interface	MXM-B (3.0)	PCIe 3.0 x8
Width	no data	1-slot
Form factor	no data	low profile / half length
Supplementary power connectors	no data	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	16 GB	2 GB
Memory bus width	256 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	6006 MHz	1800 MHz
Memory bandwidth	192 GB/s	28.8 GB/s
Shared memory	-	-

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	No outputs	2x DisplayPort
Display Port	1.4	no data
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	+
Optimus	+	no data
3D Stereo	+	no data
Mosaic	+	no data
nView Display Management	+	no data
Optimus	+	no data

API support

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

DirectX	12	12 (11_1)
Shader Model	5.1	5.1
OpenGL	4.5	4.6
OpenCL	1.2	1.2
Vulkan	1.2.131	1.2.131
CUDA	6.1	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.

P5000 Mobile 29.86
+1182%

FirePro W2100 2.33

Quadro P5000 Mobile outperforms FirePro W2100 by 1182% 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%

P5000 Mobile 11561
+1180%

FirePro W2100 903

Quadro P5000 Mobile outperforms FirePro W2100 by 1180% in Passmark.

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics

Fire Strike is a DirectX 11 benchmark for gaming PCs. It features two separate tests displaying a fight between a humanoid and a fiery creature made of lava. Using 1920x1080 resolution, Fire Strike shows off some realistic graphics and is quite taxing on hardware.

Benchmark coverage: 14%

P5000 Mobile 14666
+1252%

FirePro W2100 1085

Quadro P5000 Mobile outperforms FirePro W2100 by 1252% in 3DMark Fire Strike Graphics.

3DMark Cloud Gate GPU

Cloud Gate is an outdated DirectX 11 feature level 10 benchmark that was used for home PCs and basic notebooks. It displays a few scenes of some weird space teleportation device launching spaceships into unknown, using fixed resolution of 1280x720. Just like Ice Storm benchmark, it has been discontinued in January 2020 and replaced by 3DMark Night Raid.

Benchmark coverage: 14%

P5000 Mobile 86679
+1015%

FirePro W2100 7771

Quadro P5000 Mobile outperforms FirePro W2100 by 1015% in 3DMark Cloud Gate GPU.

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 HD	150−160 +1150%	12 −1150%
4K	24−27 +1100%	2 −1100%

Advantages and disadvantages

Performance score	29.86	2.33
Recency	11 January 2017	2 October 2015
Maximum RAM amount	16 GB	2 GB
Chip lithography	16 nm	28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	100 Watt	26 Watt