AMD Radeon HD 8970M vs AMD FirePro W6170M

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We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon HD 8970M and 2GB VRAM FirePro W6170M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 8970M 's Advantages

Boost Clock900MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

384 additional rendering cores

AMD FirePro W6170M 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 3 months late

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8970M +16%

2.304 TFLOPS

FirePro W6170M

1.971 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8970M

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FirePro W6170M

Graphics Card

May 2013

Release Date

Aug 2014

Solar System

Generation

FirePro Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

850 MHz

Base Clock

-

900 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

96.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

20

Compute Units

14

1280

Shading Units

896

80

TMUs

56

32

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

28.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.60 GPixel/s

72.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

61.60 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.304 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.971 TFLOPS

144.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

123.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Neptune

GPU Name

Emerald

Neptune XT (216-0847000)

GPU Variant

Emerald XT GL (216-0857001)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

2.08 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

160 mm²

Board Design

100W

TDP

Unknown

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.1

1.2

Vulkan

1.2.170

-

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.5

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