AMD FirePro W7100 vs NVIDIA Quadro NVS 440

Comparative analysis of AMD FirePro W7100 and NVIDIA Quadro NVS 440 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 W7100

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 5 month(s) later
  • 3.7x more core clock speed: 920 MHz vs 250 MHz
  • 4.7x more texture fill rate: 103.0 GTexel / s vs 2x 2 GTexel / s billion / sec
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 110 nm
  • 32x more maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 2x 128 MB
  • 10x more memory clock speed: 5000 MHz vs 500 MHz
  • 138.2x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 5251 vs 38
  • Around 85% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 661 vs 358
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 12 August 2014 vs 9 March 2009
Core clock speed 920 MHz vs 250 MHz
Texture fill rate 103.0 GTexel / s vs 2x 2 GTexel / s billion / sec
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm vs 110 nm
Maximum memory size 8 GB vs 2x 128 MB
Memory clock speed 5000 MHz vs 500 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 5251 vs 38
PassMark - G2D Mark 661 vs 358

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro NVS 440

  • 12.9x lower typical power consumption: 31 Watt vs 400 Watt
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 31 Watt vs 400 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD FirePro W7100
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro NVS 440

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
5251
38
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
661
358
Name AMD FirePro W7100 NVIDIA Quadro NVS 440
PassMark - G3D Mark 5251 38
PassMark - G2D Mark 661 358
Geekbench - OpenCL 24837
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 65.781
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 1248.285
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 5.854
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 94.086
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 361.58
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 6362
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3713
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3355
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 6362
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3713
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3355

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD FirePro W7100 NVIDIA Quadro NVS 440

Essentials

Architecture GCN 3.0 Curie
Code name Tonga NV43 A4
Launch date 12 August 2014 9 March 2009
Place in performance rating 451 449
Type Workstation Workstation
Launch price (MSRP) $96.99
Price now $93.61
Value for money (0-100) 0.53

Technical info

Core clock speed 920 MHz 250 MHz
Floating-point performance 3,297 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 110 nm
Pipelines 1792
Texture fill rate 103.0 GTexel / s 2x 2 GTexel / s billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 400 Watt 31 Watt
Transistor count 5,000 million 146 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 4x DisplayPort 2x DMS-59
DisplayPort count 4
Dual-link DVI support
HD сomponent video output
StereoOutput3D

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Bus support PCIe 3.0
Form factor Full Height / Full Length
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 1.0 x16
Length 241 mm 187 mm
Supplementary power connectors 1x 6-pin None

API support

DirectX 12.0 (12_0) 9.0c
OpenGL 4.5 2.1

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 2x 128 MB
Memory bandwidth 160 GB / s 2x 8 GB / s
Memory bus width 256 Bit 2x 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 5000 MHz 500 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR3