Our test workstation, an HP Z240 Mini Tower, was chosen so we could compare performance with the full height FirePro W5100 and Nvidia Quadro K2200 GPUs. We tested the AMD FirePro W4300 running our standard SolidWorks 2015 and PTC Creo 3.0 SPECapc benchmarks on a single 1,920 x 1,080 display. Doing so with 4K and 5K displays though would likely put a significant strain on the GPU, perhaps best left to higher end cards. With AMD Eyefinity, the card has the ability to span a CAD model across multiple tiled displays. HDMi, DVI, even VGA displays can also be used with appropriate adapters. The AMD FirePro W4300 supports up to four DisplayPort displays natively and up to six daisy-chained with DisplayPort multi-stream transport (MST). With an MSRP of $379 the AMD FirePro W4300 costs just $20 less than the AMD FirePro W5100. Not surprisingly, this is reflected in the price. And, as our tests confirm, performance is also remarkably similar. On paper the AMD FirePro W4300 and AMD FirePro W5100 appear very alike.īoth feature 4GB GDDR5 memory with 96GB/sec memory bandwidth, 1.43 GFLOPS of single precision floating point performance and four DisplayPort outputs (the FirePro W4300 has mini DisplayPort). AMD FirePro W4300 – Mid-range, small package However, there still remained a sizeable performance gap between it and mid-range Quadro K2200 (4GB), a popular choice for mainstream 3D CAD tower workstations.ĪMD has now upped the ante with the launch of the AMD FirePro W4300, a 4GB low profile GPU that delivers virtually the same graphics horsepower as AMD’s mid-range offering, the FirePro W5100. It was a big step up from the entry-level Quadro K620, as we noted in our review of the Lenovo ThinkStation P300 SFF workstation earlier this year. AppAccelerationĪPIs supported, including particular versions of those APIs.Nvidia kicked things off earlier this year with the launch of the low profile Quadro K1200 (4GB). This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes. 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. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated VRAM and use a shared part of system RAM. Parameters of memory installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. For desktop video cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).
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Information on compatibility with other computer components. Pipelines / CUDA coresĬompatibility, dimensions and requirements Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed.