AMD FirePro W4300
VS
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M
AMD FirePro W4300
VS
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M

General info

The main nomenclature characteristics of video cards AMD FirePro W4300 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M. Pay attention to the position in the performance rating to choose the best one.

380
Place in performance rating
337
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Value for money (0-100)
3.43
GCN 2.0
Architecture
Maxwell
Bonaire
Code name
GM107
Workstation
Type
Laptop
1 December 2015 (6 years ago)
Release date
12 March 2015 (6 years ago)
$319
Price now
$799
7.52
Value for money
2.15
Bonaire
GPU code name
N16P-GX
Workstation
Market segment
Laptop

Technical specs

Choose the best graphics card between AMD FirePro W4300 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M based on manufacturing process, power consumption, and base frequency and overclocking potential of the GPU.

768
Pipelines
640
930 MHz
Core clock speed
1096 MHz
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Boost Clock
1176 MHz
2,080 million
Transistor count
1,870 million
28 nm
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
50 Watt
Power consumption (TDP)
75 Watt
44.64
Texture fill rate
47.04
1,428 gflops
Floating-point performance
1,505 gflops
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CUDA cores
640
768
Pipelines / CUDA cores
640
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Boost clock speed
1202 MHz
2,080 million
Number of transistors
1,870 million
50 Watt
Thermal design power (TDP)
75 Watt

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Additional technical information, does not greatly affect the performance rating when comparing the AMD FirePro W4300 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M.

PCIe 3.0 x16
Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
171 mm
Length
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None
Supplementary power connectors
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Laptop size
medium sized
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SLI options
+
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Bus support
PCI Express 3.0

Memory

Graphics card memory is used to store calculations. Modern software and 3D games require more and faster memory. The higher these parameters, the more productive the chip. The difference in these characteristics AMD FirePro W4300 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M can be seen in this section.

GDDR5
Memory type
GDDR5
4 GB
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
128 Bit
Memory bus width
128 Bit
6000 MHz
Memory clock speed
2500 MHz
96 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
80 GB/s
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Shared memory
-

Video outputs and ports

The difference between the interfaces and ports of video cards AMD FirePro W4300 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M, the size and number of monitors.

4x mini-DisplayPort
Display Connectors
No outputs
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HDMI
+
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VGA аnalog display support
+
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DisplayPort Multimode (DP++) support
+

Technologies

The difference between AMD FirePro W4300 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M is the additional functionality.

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GPU Boost
2.0
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CUDA
+
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GeForce Experience
+
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Optimus
+
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Ansel
+
no data
GameStream
+
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GeForce ShadowPlay
+
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GameWorks
+
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BatteryBoost
+
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H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder
+
no data
Adaptive VSync
+
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DSR
+

API support

The difference in supported APIs is AMD FirePro W4300 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M. Hardware support (API) is not considered in synthetic benchmarks and performance tests.

12 (12_0)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.5
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Vulkan
1.1.126
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Shader Model
5.1
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OpenCL
1.2

Gaming performance

Select form the list the required name to identify gaming performance for AMD FirePro W4300 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M graphics cards. The result shows how fast the game will run and whether it can be run on this computer. The different monitor resolutions – from low to 4K – are used for testing. Find out is the AMD FirePro W4300 or NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M good for gaming.


low
1280x720
med.
1920x1080
high
1920x1080
ultra
1920x1080
QHD
2560x1440
4K
3840x2160
Horizon Zero Dawn (2020) AMD FirePro W4300
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M
Death Stranding (2020) AMD FirePro W4300
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M
F1 2020 (2020) AMD FirePro W4300
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M
Gears Tactics (2020) AMD FirePro W4300
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M
Doom Eternal (2020) AMD FirePro W4300
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M
Legend
5 Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
May Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
30 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 25 frames per second (fps)
40 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 35 frames per second (fps)
60 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 58 frames per second (fps)
May Run Fluently – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards show a smooth frame rate, comfortable for the game.
? Uncertain – Graphics cards testing has shown that a slower card can provide a high and stable frame rate for the same operation.
Uncertain – The work of the video card in the game is still being studied. Interpolation among analogs is not possible.
The value depicts the average frame rate. Hovering over the value, you can get individual results.

Advantages of AMD FirePro W4300

Cheaper ($319 vs $799)

More pipelines (768 vs 640)

Less power consumption (50 Watt vs 75 Watt)

More memory bandwidth (96 GB/s vs 80 GB/s)

Advantages of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M

2.81% faster in synthetic tests

So, AMD FirePro W4300 or NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M?

Judging by the results of synthetic and gaming tests, we recommend NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M .

AMD FirePro W4300 versus NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M performance benchmarks comparison

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