AMD FirePro W4300 vs ATI Radeon HD 2900 PRO

Comparative analysis of AMD FirePro W4300 and ATI Radeon HD 2900 PRO 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).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD FirePro W4300

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 7 year(s) 11 month(s) later
  • Around 55% higher core clock speed: 930 MHz vs 600 MHz
  • 4.7x more texture fill rate: 44.64 GTexel / s vs 9.6 GTexel / s
  • 2.4x more pipelines: 768 vs 320
  • 3.7x better floating-point performance: 1,428 gflops vs 384.0 gflops
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 80 nm
  • 4x lower typical power consumption: 50 Watt vs 200 Watt
  • 8x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 512 MB
  • 3.8x more memory clock speed: 6000 MHz vs 1600 MHz
  • 4.5x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 2834 vs 628
  • Around 64% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 652 vs 397
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 1 December 2015 vs 12 December 2007
Core clock speed 930 MHz vs 600 MHz
Texture fill rate 44.64 GTexel / s vs 9.6 GTexel / s
Pipelines 768 vs 320
Floating-point performance 1,428 gflops vs 384.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm vs 80 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 50 Watt vs 200 Watt
Maximum memory size 4 GB vs 512 MB
Memory clock speed 6000 MHz vs 1600 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 2834 vs 628
PassMark - G2D Mark 652 vs 397

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD FirePro W4300
GPU 2: ATI Radeon HD 2900 PRO

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
2834
628
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
652
397
Name AMD FirePro W4300 ATI Radeon HD 2900 PRO
PassMark - G3D Mark 2834 628
PassMark - G2D Mark 652 397
Geekbench - OpenCL 10312
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 31.528
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 828.57
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 2.985
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 59.153
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 152.484
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 3572
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 6161
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 17597
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 3572
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 6161
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 17597

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD FirePro W4300 ATI Radeon HD 2900 PRO

Essentials

Architecture GCN 2.0 TeraScale
Code name Bonaire R600
Launch date 1 December 2015 12 December 2007
Place in performance rating 416 376
Type Workstation Desktop

Technical info

Core clock speed 930 MHz 600 MHz
Floating-point performance 1,428 gflops 384.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 80 nm
Pipelines 768 320
Texture fill rate 44.64 GTexel / s 9.6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 50 Watt 200 Watt
Transistor count 2,080 million 720 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 4x mini-DisplayPort 2x DVI, 1x S-Video

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 1.0 x16
Length 171 mm 241 mm
Supplementary power connectors None 1x 8-pin

API support

DirectX 12.0 (12_0) 10.0
OpenGL 4.5 3.3

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 512 MB
Memory bandwidth 96 GB / s 118.4 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 Bit 512 Bit
Memory clock speed 6000 MHz 1600 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR4