FirePro W4300 vs Radeon 8050S
Aggregate performance score
We've compared Radeon 8050S with FirePro W4300, including specs and performance data.
8050S outperforms W4300 by a whopping 475% based on our aggregate benchmark results.
Primary details
GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.
| Place in the ranking | 93 | 546 |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | not in top-100 |
| Power efficiency | no data | 10.27 |
| Architecture | RDNA 3.5 (2024−2025) | GCN 2.0 (2013−2017) |
| GPU code name | Strix Point | Bonaire |
| Market segment | Laptop | Workstation |
| Release date | 2025 (recently) | 1 December 2015 (9 years ago) |
Detailed specifications
General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 2048 | 768 |
| Core clock speed | 1295 MHz | 930 MHz |
| Boost clock speed | 2335 MHz | no data |
| Number of transistors | 34,000 million | 2,080 million |
| Manufacturing process technology | 4 nm | 28 nm |
| Power consumption (TDP) | no data | 50 Watt |
| Texture fill rate | 298.9 | 44.64 |
| Floating-point processing power | 9.564 TFLOPS | 1.428 TFLOPS |
| ROPs | 64 | 16 |
| TMUs | 128 | 48 |
| Ray Tracing Cores | 32 | no data |
Form factor & 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).
| Interface | PCIe 5.0 x16 | PCIe 3.0 x16 |
| Length | no data | 171 mm |
| Width | no data | 1-slot |
| 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 | System Shared | GDDR5 |
| Maximum RAM amount | System Shared | 4 GB |
| Memory bus width | System Shared | 128 Bit |
| Memory clock speed | System Shared | 1500 MHz |
| Memory bandwidth | no data | 96 GB/s |
| Shared memory | + | - |
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 | Portable Device Dependent | 4x mini-DisplayPort |
API and SDK compatibility
List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.
| DirectX | 12 Ultimate (12_2) | 12 (12_0) |
| Shader Model | 6.8 | 6.3 |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | 4.6 |
| OpenCL | 2.1 | 2.0 |
| Vulkan | 1.3 | 1.2.131 |
Synthetic benchmark performance
Non-gaming benchmark results comparison. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.
Combined synthetic benchmark score
This is our combined benchmark score.
Passmark
This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark. 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.
Gaming performance
Let's see how good the compared graphics cards are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.
Pros & cons summary
| Performance score | 37.29 | 6.48 |
| Chip lithography | 4 nm | 28 nm |
Radeon 8050S has a 475.5% higher aggregate performance score, and a 600% more advanced lithography process.
The Radeon 8050S is our recommended choice as it beats the FirePro W4300 in performance tests.
Be aware that Radeon 8050S is a notebook card while FirePro W4300 is a workstation one.
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