FirePro W2100 and A2 - video card comparison

FirePro W2100

A2

Architecture

GCN (2011−2017)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

Mars

GA107

Market segment

Workstation

Desktop

Release date

October 2015

November 2021

Bus support

PCIe 3.0

-

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

PCIe 4.0 x8

Supplementary power connectors

None

None

Boost clock speed

680 MHz

1770 MHz

Core clock speed

680 MHz

-

Floating-point performance

435.2 gflops

-

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

950 million

-

Pipelines / CUDA cores

320

1280

Power consumption (TDP)

26 Watt

60 Watt

Texture fill rate

13.60

70.80

Memory type

DDR3

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

2 GB

16 GB

Memory bus width

128 Bit

128 Bit

Memory clock speed

1800 MHz

12.5 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

28.8 GB/s

200.1 GB/s

Shared memory

-

-

Display Connectors

2x DisplayPort

No outputs

DisplayPort count

2

-

Dual-link DVI support

1

-

DirectX

12 (11_1)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

-

8.6

OpenCL

1.2

3.0

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Shader Model

5.1

6.6

Vulkan

1.2.131

1.2

AppAcceleration

+

-