AMD FirePro D700 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Mobile Comparison

Where Each One Wins

The benchmark data paints a clear picture of two very different hardware generations. The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Mobile wins both recorded head-to-head tests, and it wins them by substantial margins. In Geekbench OpenCL, the RTX 4060 Mobile scores 89,420 against the FirePro D700's 23,716, a delta of 73.5 percent in favor of the NVIDIA part. In Geekbench Vulkan, the gap is similar: 89,569 versus 27,968, a 68.8 percent advantage.

These are not close contests. The FirePro D700 does not win a single benchmark in the database's head-to-head comparison. Its strongest recorded result is the Vulkan score of 27,968, but that still trails the RTX 4060 Mobile by more than two-thirds. The OpenCL result is even more one-sided, with the NVIDIA part delivering roughly 3.8 times the score of the AMD workstation card.

The use-case split is therefore stark. The RTX 4060 Mobile is the clear choice for any workload that leverages OpenCL or Vulkan compute, which covers a broad range of modern rendering, simulation, and GPU-accelerated applications. The FirePro D700, despite being a dual-slot professional card with six mini-DisplayPort outputs, cannot keep pace in raw compute throughput as measured by these tests. Its only potential advantage would be in legacy or specialized workstation scenarios that the benchmark suite does not directly capture, but the recorded data offers no such win.

Architecture Differences

The architectural gap between these two GPUs spans more than a decade of design philosophy. The AMD FirePro D700 uses the Tahiti chip built on GCN 1.0 architecture, manufactured on a 28 nm process at TSMC. It packs 4,313 million transistors onto a 352 mm² die, yielding a transistor density of 12.3 million per square millimeter. The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Mobile, by contrast, uses the AD107 chip with Ada Lovelace architecture, built on TSMC's 5 nm process. It integrates 18,900 million transistors into a much smaller 159 mm² die, achieving a density of 118.9 million per square millimeter, nearly ten times higher.

Memory configurations differ as well. The FirePro D700 comes with 6 GB of GDDR5 on a 384-bit bus, delivering 263.0 GB/s of bandwidth. The RTX 4060 Mobile has 8 GB of GDDR6 on a narrower 128-bit bus, yet still manages 256.0 GB/s, thanks to faster memory clocks. The NVIDIA part runs its memory at 2000 MHz with 16 Gbps effective data rate, while the AMD card's memory is rated at 1370 MHz with 5.5 Gbps effective. The wider bus on the older card is nearly neutralized by the newer memory technology.

Compute resources also shift dramatically. The FirePro D700 has 2,048 shading units, 128 texture mapping units, and 32 ROPs. The RTX 4060 Mobile increases shading units to 3,072, reduces TMUs to 96, but raises ROPs to 48. More importantly, the NVIDIA part adds 24 RT cores and 96 tensor cores, features that simply do not exist on the GCN 1.0 architecture. These dedicated hardware units enable hardware-accelerated ray tracing and AI-based Tensor Core operations, capabilities entirely absent from the FirePro D700.

The resulting throughput numbers reflect these architectural differences. The FirePro D700 achieves 3.482 TFLOPS of FP32 compute, a pixel rate of 27.20 GPixel/s, and a texture rate of 108.8 GTexel/s. The RTX 4060 Mobile delivers 11.61 TFLOPS of FP32, 90.72 GPixel/s, and 181.4 GTexel/s. It also offers FP16 at the same 11.61 TFLOPS with a 1:1 ratio, while the AMD card has no recorded FP16 capability. Power consumption tells another story: the FirePro D700 draws 274 W with a suggested 600 W PSU, while the RTX 4060 Mobile operates at 115 W with no external power connectors and is classified as an IGP (integrated graphics processor) for laptop use.

The API support also shows the generational leap. The FirePro D700 supports DirectX 12 (11_1), OpenGL 4.6, and Vulkan 1.2.170. The RTX 4060 Mobile supports DirectX 12 Ultimate (12_2), OpenGL 4.6, and Vulkan 1.4. The bus interface moves from PCIe 3.0 x16 on the AMD card to PCIe 4.0 x8 on the NVIDIA part, a change that reflects the mobile nature of the latter. The FirePro D700 is a 279 mm dual-slot card with six mini-DisplayPort 1.2 outputs and one SDI output, while the RTX 4060 Mobile is portable-device dependent with no fixed display outputs.

Head-to-Head Benchmarks

The two recorded head-to-head tests both favor the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Mobile, but the magnitude of the wins differs meaningfully. In Geekbench OpenCL, the FirePro D700 scores 23,716 against the RTX 4060 Mobile's 89,420. The delta of 73.5 percent indicates that the NVIDIA part is nearly four times faster in this compute workload. This is the larger of the two gaps, suggesting that OpenCL execution on the older GCN architecture is particularly inefficient compared to the Ada Lovelace implementation.

In Geekbench Vulkan, the FirePro D700 improves to 27,968, but the RTX 4060 Mobile also rises, scoring 89,569. The delta narrows slightly to 68.8 percent, but the NVIDIA part still more than triples the AMD card's result. Interestingly, the FirePro D700's Vulkan score is 18 percent higher than its OpenCL score, while the RTX 4060 Mobile's two scores are nearly identical, 89,420 versus 89,569. This suggests the newer architecture handles both APIs with similar efficiency, while the older card shows a measurable preference for Vulkan over OpenCL.

Looking at the broader benchmark picture, the RTX 4060 Mobile has nine recorded tests in the database. Its PassMark results include 17,469 in G3D, 6,816 in GPU compute, 730 in G2D, and lower scores in the DirectX-specific tests: 216 in DirectX 9, 157 in DirectX 11, 107 in DirectX 10, and 73 in DirectX 12. The FirePro D700 has only the two Geekbench results, which limits direct comparison to those tests. However, the average benchmark score for each card tells a complementary story. The FirePro D700 averages 25,842, while the RTX 4060 Mobile averages 22,729. The higher average for the AMD card is largely due to its being evaluated on just two tests, both of which are compute-oriented, while the NVIDIA part's average is dragged down by the low PassMark DirectX scores, which appear to use a different scoring scale.

The percentile rankings also differ. The FirePro D700 sits at the 71st percentile against all GPUs, while the RTX 4060 Mobile sits at the 67th percentile. This is counterintuitive given the head-to-head results, but it reflects the fact that the AMD card is being compared against a different distribution of scores, and its two-test average is relatively high. The nearest rivals for each card further contextualize their positions. The FirePro D700's closest competitors include the AMD FirePro W7100 with an average score of 25,856, the AMD Radeon R9 M395X at 25,891, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Mobile at 25,740, and the AMD Radeon Pro W5700 at 25,726. The deltas are tiny, ranging from 0.5 percent to negative 0.2 percent. The RTX 4060 Mobile's rivals include the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 at 22,895, the AMD Radeon RX 7700 XT at 22,549, the Intel Arc B580 at 23,021, and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Mobile at 22,435, with deltas ranging from 1.3 percent to negative 1.3 percent.

FAQ

Q: Which GPU has the higher FP32 compute throughput?

A: The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Mobile delivers 11.61 TFLOPS of FP32 compute, while the AMD FirePro D700 provides 3.482 TFLOPS. The NVIDIA part is roughly 3.3 times faster in this metric.

Q: How do the memory bandwidths compare?

A: The FirePro D700 has 263.0 GB/s of bandwidth from 6 GB of GDDR5 on a 384-bit bus. The RTX 4060 Mobile has 256.0 GB/s from 8 GB of GDDR6 on a 128-bit bus. Despite the narrower bus, the newer GDDR6 memory at 16 Gbps effective nearly closes the gap.

Q: What is the power draw difference?

A: The FirePro D700 has a TDP of 274 W and requires a suggested 600 W power supply. The RTX 4060 Mobile operates at 115 W with no external power connectors, reflecting its mobile IGP design.

Q: Do both GPUs support hardware ray tracing?

A: No. The RTX 4060 Mobile includes 24 dedicated RT cores for hardware-accelerated ray tracing. The FirePro D700, based on GCN 1.0 architecture, has no RT cores.

Q: What are the average benchmark scores for each card?

A: The FirePro D700 has an average benchmark score of 25,842, while the RTX 4060 Mobile averages 22,729. The FirePro D700 also holds a higher percentile rank at 71 versus the RTX 4060 Mobile's 67.

Q: How old are these products relative to each other?

A: The FirePro D700 was released in January 2014 and is end-of-life. The RTX 4060 Mobile was released in January 2023 and remains active in production. The NVIDIA part is nine years newer.

The Verdict

The data points to a decisive conclusion for anyone choosing between these two GPUs for modern workloads. The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Mobile wins both recorded head-to-head benchmarks by margins of 73.5 percent and 68.8 percent. It offers 11.61 TFLOPS of FP32 compute versus 3.482 TFLOPS, includes RT and tensor cores that the FirePro D700 lacks entirely, supports DirectX 12 Ultimate versus DirectX 12 (11_1), and does so at 115 W versus 274 W. The only metrics where the FirePro D700 shows an advantage are the average benchmark score, 25,842 versus 22,729, and the percentile ranking, 71 versus 67, both of which are artifacts of the limited test set available for the older card.

For users running OpenCL or Vulkan compute applications, the RTX 4060 Mobile is the only rational choice. The performance gap is too large to ignore, and the architectural advantages, including ray tracing and tensor cores, open up capabilities the FirePro D700 cannot match. The FirePro D700's six mini-DisplayPort outputs and SDI support make it a candidate for multi-display workstation setups, but that is a niche use case that does not appear in the benchmark results.

For those considering the FirePro D700 for legacy workstation duties, the data shows it remains competitive with its immediate peers, sitting within 0.5 percent of the AMD FirePro W7100, AMD Radeon R9 M395X, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Mobile, and AMD Radeon Pro W5700 in average score. But against the RTX 4060 Mobile, a product from a different era, it simply cannot compete. The verdict is clear: the RTX 4060 Mobile is the superior GPU in every recorded compute benchmark, and the FirePro D700 should only be considered for specialized, non-compute workstation scenarios where its display output flexibility matters more than performance.