AMD FirePro M8900 vs AMD FirePro W6170M
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FirePro M8900 and 2GB VRAM FirePro W6170M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD FirePro M8900 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (115.2GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)
64 additional rendering cores
AMD FirePro W6170M 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 4 months late
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FirePro M8900
1.306 TFLOPS
FirePro W6170M
+50%
1.971 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Apr 2011
Release Date
Aug 2014
FirePro Mobile
Generation
FirePro Mobile
Mobile
Type
Mobile
MXM-B (3.0)
Bus Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
900 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
115.2GB/s
Bandwidth
96.00GB/s
Render Config
12
Compute Units
14
-
-
-
960
Shading Units
896
48
TMUs
56
32
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
8 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
512 KB
L2 Cache
256 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
21.76 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
17.60 GPixel/s
32.64 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
61.60 GTexel/s
-
-
-
1306 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1.971 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
123.2 GFLOPS
Board Design
75W
TDP
Unknown
-
-
-
No outputs
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Blackcomb
GPU Name
Emerald
Blackcomb XT GL
GPU Variant
Emerald XT GL
(216-0857001)
TeraScale 2
Architecture
GCN 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
28 nm
1.7 billion
Transistors
2.08 billion
212 mm²
Die Size
160 mm²
Graphics Features
11.2 (11_0)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
4.4
OpenGL
4.6
1.2
OpenCL
2.1
N/A
Vulkan
1.2.170
-
-
-
5.0
Shader Model
6.5
