AMD FirePro W7100
VS
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M
AMD FirePro W7100
VS
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M

General info

The main nomenclature characteristics of video cards AMD FirePro W7100 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M. Pay attention to the position in the performance rating to choose the best one.

232
Place in performance rating
372
13.20
Value for money (0-100)
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GCN 3.0
Architecture
Maxwell
Tonga
Code name
GM107
Workstation
Type
Laptop
12 August 2014 (7 years ago)
Release date
12 March 2014 (7 years ago)
$684
Price now
$875
7.18
Value for money
1.01
Tonga
GPU code name
N15P-GX
Workstation
Market segment
Laptop

Technical specs

Choose the best graphics card between AMD FirePro W7100 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M based on manufacturing process, power consumption, and base frequency and overclocking potential of the GPU.

1792
Pipelines
640
920 MHz
Core clock speed
797 MHz
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Boost Clock
1085 MHz
5,000 million
Transistor count
1,870 million
28 nm
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
400 Watt
Power consumption (TDP)
75 Watt
103.0
Texture fill rate
43.40
3,297 gflops
Floating-point performance
1,389 gflops
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CUDA cores
1152 or 640
1792
Pipelines / CUDA cores
640
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Boost clock speed
915 MHz
5,000 million
Number of transistors
1,870 million
400 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 W7100 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M.

PCIe 3.0 x16
Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
241 mm
Length
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1x 6-pin
Supplementary power connectors
None
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Laptop size
medium sized
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SLI options
+
PCIe 3.0
Bus support
PCI Express 2.0, PCI Express 3.0
full height / full length
Form factor
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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 W7100 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M can be seen in this section.

GDDR5
Memory type
GDDR5
8 GB
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
256 Bit
Memory bus width
128 Bit
5000 MHz
Memory clock speed
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160 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
80.0 GB/s
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Shared memory
-
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Standard memory configuration
GDDR5

Video outputs and ports

The difference between the interfaces and ports of video cards AMD FirePro W7100 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M, the size and number of monitors.

4x DisplayPort
Display Connectors
No outputs
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HDMI
+
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VGA аnalog display support
Up to 2048x1536
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DisplayPort Multimode (DP++) support
Up to 3840x2160
1
StereoOutput3D
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1
Dual-link DVI support
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1
HD сomponent video output
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4
DisplayPort count
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eDP 1.2 signal support
Up to 3840x2160
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LVDS signal support
Up to 1920x1200
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HDCP content protection
+
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7.1 channel HD audio on HDMI
+
no data
TrueHD and DTS-HD audio bitstreaming
+

Technologies

The difference between AMD FirePro W7100 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M is the additional functionality.

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GPU Boost
+
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CUDA
+
no data
GeForce Experience
+
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Optimus
+
no data
Ansel
+
no data
GeForce ShadowPlay
+
no data
BatteryBoost
+
no data
H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder
+
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FXAA
+
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TXAA
+
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Adaptive VSync
+
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3D Blu-Ray
+
no data
Direct Compute
+

API support

The difference in supported APIs is AMD FirePro W7100 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M. 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
1.1

Gaming performance

Select form the list the required name to identify gaming performance for AMD FirePro W7100 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M 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 W7100 or NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M good for gaming.


low
1280x720
med.
1920x1080
high
1920x1080
ultra
1920x1080
QHD
2560x1440
4K
3840x2160
Horizon Zero Dawn (2020) AMD FirePro W7100
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M
Death Stranding (2020) AMD FirePro W7100
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M
F1 2020 (2020) AMD FirePro W7100
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M
Gears Tactics (2020) AMD FirePro W7100
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M
Doom Eternal (2020) AMD FirePro W7100
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M
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 W7100

11.76% faster in synthetic tests

Cheaper ($684 vs $875)

More pipelines (1792 vs 640)

More maximum RAM amount (8 GB vs 4 GB)

More memory bandwidth (160 GB/s vs 80.0 GB/s)

Advantages of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M

Less power consumption (75 Watt vs 400 Watt)

So, AMD FirePro W7100 or NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M?

Judging by the results of synthetic and gaming tests, we recommend AMD FirePro W7100 .

AMD FirePro W7100 versus NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M performance benchmarks comparison

Overall benchmark performance

User rating

0.0 Out of 0 CpusData Score AMD FirePro W7100
0.0 Out of 0 CpusData Score NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M