AMD FirePro W9100 vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500 X2

Comparative analysis of AMD FirePro W9100 and NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500 X2 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 W9100

• Videocard is newer: launch date 7 year(s) 11 month(s) later
• Around 86% higher core clock speed: 930 MHz vs 500 MHz
• A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 90 nm
• 16x more maximum memory size: 16 GB vs 2x 512 MB
• 4.1x more memory clock speed: 5000 MHz vs 1210 MHz
• 32.1x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 7580 vs 236
• Around 14% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 747 vs 653

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500 X2

• Around 30% higher texture fill rate: 2x 12 GTexel / s billion / sec vs 163.7 GTexel / s
• 5.2x lower typical power consumption: 145 Watt vs 750 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD FirePro W9100
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500 X2

PassMark - G3D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	7580 236
PassMark - G2D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	747 653

Compare specifications (specs)