AMD FirePro W2100 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 720M

Compare AMD FirePro W2100 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 720M, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce GT 720M

Price

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$ 75.00

$ 54.90

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

121 points

Identical

121 points

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

3 FPS

Identical

3 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

2 FPS

0 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

3 FPS

1 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

2 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

0 FPS

1 FPS

0 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

4425 points

115% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

2056 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

4070 points

55% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

2610 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

630 MHz

719 MHz

14% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

680 MHz

758 MHz

11% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit

100% significantly larger memory bus width

64 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

28.8 GB/s

125% significantly higher memory bandwidth

12.8 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

26 W

26% slightly lower TDP

33 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

5.44 Gigapixels/s

79% significantly higher pixel rate

3.03 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

13.6 Gigatexels/s

12% slightly higher texture rate

12.13 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

320

66% significantly more shading units

192

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

25% slightly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

484th of 586

487th of 586

Family

The product line

FirePro

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 August

2013 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

FirePro W2100 vs GeForce GT 720M specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce GT 720M GPU is faster than the FirePro W2100 in gaming.

Our database shows that the GeForce GT 720M has a slightly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation. In addition, the GeForce GT 720M also has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

In addition, the FirePro W2100 has a slightly lower TDP at 26 W when compared to the GeForce GT 720M at 33 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce GT 720M is faster than the FirePro W2100.