AMD FirePro V4900 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9100

Comparative analysis of AMD FirePro V4900 and NVIDIA GeForce 9100 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

AMD FirePro V4900

NVIDIA GeForce 9100

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD FirePro V4900

Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 6 month(s) later
Around 60% higher core clock speed: 800 MHz vs 500 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 80 nm
12.3x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1006 vs 82
9.7x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 7745 vs 795
9.7x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 7745 vs 795

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	1 November 2011 vs 17 April 2007
Core clock speed	800 MHz vs 500 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 80 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	1006 vs 82
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	7745 vs 795
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	7745 vs 795

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 9100

Around 88% lower typical power consumption: 40 Watt vs 75 Watt
Around 8% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 345 vs 320

Specifications (specs)
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	40 Watt vs 75 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	345 vs 320

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD FirePro V4900
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 9100

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

1006

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

320

345

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)

GPU 1

GPU 2

7745

795

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)

GPU 1

GPU 2

7745

795

Name	AMD FirePro V4900	NVIDIA GeForce 9100
PassMark - G3D Mark	1006	82
PassMark - G2D Mark	320	345
Geekbench - OpenCL	1927
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	6.303
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	392.237
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	0.597
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	17.874
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	72.818
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	1747
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3753
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	7745	795
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	1747
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3753
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	7745	795

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD FirePro V4900	NVIDIA GeForce 9100
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale 2	Tesla
Code name	Turks	C78
Launch date	1 November 2011	17 April 2007
Place in performance rating	957	959
Type	Workstation	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	800 MHz	500 MHz
Floating-point performance	768.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	80 nm
Pipelines	480
Texture fill rate	19.2 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	75 Watt	40 Watt
Transistor count	716 million	210 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 2x DisplayPort	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCI
Length	163 mm
Supplementary power connectors	None
API support
DirectX	11.2 (11_0)	10.0
OpenGL	4.4	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB
Memory bandwidth	64.0 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	4000 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5