AMD FirePro W6170M vs AMD Radeon HD 6490M Mac Edition

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AMD FirePro W6170M AMD Radeon HD 6490M Mac Edition

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FirePro W6170M and 256MB VRAM Radeon HD 6490M Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro W6170M 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 3 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.00GB/s vs 25.41GB/s)

736 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro W6170M +721%

1.971 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6490M Mac Edition

0.24 TFLOPS

FirePro W6170M

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Radeon HD 6490M Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Aug 2014

Release Date

May 2011

FirePro Mobile

Generation

Vancouver

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

794 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

25.41GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

14

Compute Units

2

896

Shading Units

160

56

TMUs

8

16

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

Theoretical Performance

17.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.000 GPixel/s

61.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

6.000 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1.971 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

240.0 GFLOPS

123.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Emerald

GPU Name

Seymour

Emerald XT GL (216-0857001)

GPU Variant

Seymour XTX M2 (216-0809000)

GCN 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

0.37 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

67 mm²

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

Unknown

-

Suggested PSU

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

2.1

OpenCL

1.2

1.2.170

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

6.5

Shader Model

5.0

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