NVIDIA GeForce 945M vs AMD FirePro W4100

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 945M and AMD FirePro W4100 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. 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 NVIDIA GeForce 945M

• Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 2 month(s) later
• Around 63% higher core clock speed: 1029 MHz vs 630 MHz
• Around 48% higher texture fill rate: 29.81 GTexel / s vs 20.16 GTexel / s
• Around 48% better floating-point performance: 953.9 gflops vs 645.1 gflops
• Around 38% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 2108 vs 1529
• Around 47% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 8099 vs 5519
• Around 83% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s): 28.633 vs 15.65
• Around 22% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s): 1.988 vs 1.63
• Around 42% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s): 107.094 vs 75.309
• Around 52% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 2961 vs 1951
• Around 8% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 3683 vs 3399
• 2.1x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3343 vs 1620
• Around 52% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 2961 vs 1951
• Around 8% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 3683 vs 3399
• 2.1x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3343 vs 1620

Reasons to consider the AMD FirePro W4100

• Around 50% lower typical power consumption: 50 Watt vs 75 Watt
• 2.2x more memory clock speed: 4000 MHz vs 1800 MHz
• Around 89% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 481 vs 255
• Around 42% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s): 538.848 vs 380.461
• Around 2% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s): 31.533 vs 31.027

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 945M
GPU 2: AMD FirePro W4100

PassMark - G3D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	2108 1529
PassMark - G2D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	255 481
Geekbench - OpenCL	GPU 1 GPU 2	8099 5519
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	28.633 15.65
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	380.461 538.848
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	1.988 1.63
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	31.027 31.533
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	107.094 75.309
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	2961 1951
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3683 3399
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3343 1620
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	2961 1951
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3683 3399
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3343 1620

Compare specifications (specs)