FirePro W2100 vs UHD Graphics 730 (Rocket Lake)

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Aggregate performance score

We've compared UHD Graphics 730 (Rocket Lake) with FirePro W2100, including specs and performance data.

UHD Graphics 730 (Rocket Lake)
2021
15 Watt
14.02
+499%

UHD Graphics 730 (Rocket Lake) outperforms W2100 by a whopping 499% based on our aggregate benchmark results.

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking372848
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency64.056.17
Architectureno dataGCN 1.0 (2011−2020)
GPU code nameRocket Lake GT1Oland
Market segmentLaptopWorkstation
Release date30 March 2021 (3 years ago)12 August 2014 (10 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 coresno data320
Core clock speedno data630 MHz
Boost clock speedno data680 MHz
Number of transistorsno data950 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)15 Watt26 Watt
Texture fill rateno data13.60
Floating-point processing powerno data0.4352 TFLOPS
ROPsno data8
TMUsno data20

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).

Bus supportno dataPCIe 3.0
Interfaceno dataPCIe 3.0 x8
Widthno data1-slot
Form factorno datalow profile / half length
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

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 typeno dataDDR3
Maximum RAM amountno data2 GB
Memory bus widthno data128 Bit
Memory clock speedno data900 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data28.8 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 Connectorsno data2x DisplayPort
DisplayPort countno data2
Dual-link DVI support-+

Supported technologies

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

AppAcceleration-+

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectXno data12 (11_1)
Shader Modelno data5.1
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data1.2
Vulkan-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. 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.

UHD Graphics 730 (Rocket Lake) 14.02
+499%
FirePro W2100 2.34

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.

UHD Graphics 730 (Rocket Lake) 1613
+48.7%
FirePro W2100 1085

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.

UHD Graphics 730 (Rocket Lake) 83293
+972%
FirePro W2100 7771

Unigine Heaven 3.0

This is an old DirectX 11 benchmark using Unigine, a 3D game engine by eponymous Russian company. It displays a fantasy medieval town sprawling over several flying islands. Version 3.0 was released in 2012, and in 2013 it was superseded by Heaven 4.0, which introduced several slight improvements, including a newer version of Unigine.

UHD Graphics 730 (Rocket Lake) 9013
+60390%
FirePro W2100 15

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 HD12
+0%
12
+0%
4K10−12
+400%
2
−400%

FPS performance in popular games

Full HD
Low Preset

Cyberpunk 2077 24−27
+380%
5−6
−380%

Full HD
Medium Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 35−40
+350%
8−9
−350%
Assassin's Creed Valhalla 24−27
+550%
4−5
−550%
Battlefield 5 50−55
+1600%
3−4
−1600%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 30−35
+433%
6−7
−433%
Cyberpunk 2077 24−27
+380%
5−6
−380%
Far Cry 5 35−40
+825%
4−5
−825%
Far Cry New Dawn 40−45
+617%
6−7
−617%
Forza Horizon 4 100−110
+818%
10−12
−818%
Hitman 3 30−33
+329%
7−8
−329%
Horizon Zero Dawn 75−80
+316%
18−20
−316%
Metro Exodus 50−55
+5200%
1−2
−5200%
Red Dead Redemption 2 40−45
+760%
5−6
−760%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 50−55
+364%
10−12
−364%
Watch Dogs: Legion 80−85
+116%
35−40
−116%

Full HD
High Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 35−40
+350%
8−9
−350%
Assassin's Creed Valhalla 24−27
+550%
4−5
−550%
Battlefield 5 50−55
+1600%
3−4
−1600%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 30−35
+433%
6−7
−433%
Cyberpunk 2077 24−27
+380%
5−6
−380%
Far Cry 5 35−40
+825%
4−5
−825%
Far Cry New Dawn 40−45
+617%
6−7
−617%
Forza Horizon 4 100−110
+818%
10−12
−818%
Hitman 3 30−33
+329%
7−8
−329%
Horizon Zero Dawn 75−80
+316%
18−20
−316%
Metro Exodus 50−55
+5200%
1−2
−5200%
Red Dead Redemption 2 40−45
+760%
5−6
−760%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 12
+9.1%
10−12
−9.1%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 35−40
+185%
12−14
−185%
Watch Dogs: Legion 80−85
+116%
35−40
−116%

Full HD
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 35−40
+350%
8−9
−350%
Assassin's Creed Valhalla 24−27
+550%
4−5
−550%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 30−35
+433%
6−7
−433%
Cyberpunk 2077 24−27
+380%
5−6
−380%
Far Cry 5 35−40
+825%
4−5
−825%
Forza Horizon 4 100−110
+818%
10−12
−818%
Hitman 3 30−33
+329%
7−8
−329%
Horizon Zero Dawn 75−80
+316%
18−20
−316%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 50−55
+364%
10−12
−364%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 35−40
+185%
12−14
−185%
Watch Dogs: Legion 80−85
+116%
35−40
−116%

Full HD
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2 40−45
+760%
5−6
−760%

1440p
High Preset

Battlefield 5 30−33
+650%
4−5
−650%
Far Cry New Dawn 24−27
+700%
3−4
−700%

1440p
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 16−18
+700%
2−3
−700%
Assassin's Creed Valhalla 12−14
+550%
2−3
−550%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 16−18
+1600%
1−2
−1600%
Cyberpunk 2077 8−9
+700%
1−2
−700%
Far Cry 5 18−20
+500%
3−4
−500%
Forza Horizon 4 80−85
+592%
12−14
−592%
Hitman 3 18−20
+171%
7−8
−171%
Horizon Zero Dawn 30−35
+433%
6−7
−433%
Metro Exodus 27−30
+600%
4−5
−600%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 27−30
+625%
4−5
−625%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 16−18
+1600%
1−2
−1600%
Watch Dogs: Legion 95−100
+638%
12−14
−638%

1440p
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2 24−27
+420%
5−6
−420%

4K
High Preset

Battlefield 5 14−16 0−1
Far Cry New Dawn 12−14
+1100%
1−2
−1100%
Hitman 3 10−12
+1000%
1−2
−1000%
Horizon Zero Dawn 75−80
+558%
12−14
−558%
Metro Exodus 16−18
+700%
2−3
−700%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 14−16
+650%
2−3
−650%

4K
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 9−10
+350%
2−3
−350%
Assassin's Creed Valhalla 7−8
+600%
1−2
−600%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 8−9
+700%
1−2
−700%
Cyberpunk 2077 3−4 0−1
Far Cry 5 8−9
+700%
1−2
−700%
Forza Horizon 4 21−24
+600%
3−4
−600%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 16−18
+700%
2−3
−700%
Watch Dogs: Legion 6−7 0−1

4K
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2 14−16
+367%
3−4
−367%

This is how UHD Graphics 730 (Rocket Lake) and FirePro W2100 compete in popular games:

  • A tie in 1080p
  • UHD Graphics 730 (Rocket Lake) is 400% faster in 4K

Here's the range of performance differences observed across popular games:

  • in Metro Exodus, with 1080p resolution and the Medium Preset, the UHD Graphics 730 (Rocket Lake) is 5200% faster.

All in all, in popular games:

  • Without exception, UHD Graphics 730 (Rocket Lake) surpassed FirePro W2100 in all 56 of our tests.

Pros & cons summary


Performance score 14.02 2.34
Recency 30 March 2021 12 August 2014
Chip lithography 14 nm 28 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 15 Watt 26 Watt

UHD Graphics 730 (Rocket Lake) has a 499.1% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 6 years, a 100% more advanced lithography process, and 73.3% lower power consumption.

The UHD Graphics 730 (Rocket Lake) is our recommended choice as it beats the FirePro W2100 in performance tests.

Be aware that UHD Graphics 730 (Rocket Lake) is a notebook card while FirePro W2100 is a workstation one.


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Intel UHD Graphics 730 (Rocket Lake)
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