NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX vs AMD FirePro W7170M

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX AMD FirePro W7170M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980MX and 4GB VRAM FirePro W7170M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX 's Advantages

Released 8 months late

Boost Clock1178MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 160.0GB/s)

AMD FirePro W7170M 's Advantages

384 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (100W vs 148W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 980MX +32%

3.92 TFLOPS

FirePro W7170M

2.961 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980MX

VS

FirePro W7170M

Graphics Card

Jun 2016

Release Date

Oct 2015

GeForce 900M

Generation

FirePro Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1050 MHz

Base Clock

-

1178 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

192.0GB/s

Bandwidth

160.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

32

1664

Shading Units

2048

104

TMUs

128

64

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

75.39 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

23.14 GPixel/s

122.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

92.54 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

2.961 TFLOPS

3.920 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.961 TFLOPS

122.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

185.1 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

Amethyst

N16E-GXX-A1

GPU Variant

Amethyst XT GL

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

GCN 3.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

5 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

366 mm²

Board Design

148W

TDP

100W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

5.2

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.3

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