AMD FirePro W5170M vs NVIDIA GeForce 940MX

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We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FirePro W5170M and 2GB VRAM GeForce 940MX to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro W5170M 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (72.00GB/s vs 16.02GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 940MX 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 34% (1242MHz vs 925MHz)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro W5170M +24%

1.184 TFLOPS

GeForce 940MX

0.954 TFLOPS

FirePro W5170M

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GeForce 940MX

Graphics Card

Aug 2014

Release Date

Jan 2016

FirePro Mobile

Generation

GeForce 900M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-A (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

900 MHz

Base Clock

1004 MHz

925 MHz

Boost Clock

1242 MHz

1125 MHz

Memory Clock

1001 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

72.00GB/s

Bandwidth

16.02GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

10

Compute Units

-

640

Shading Units

384

40

TMUs

24

16

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SMM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

14.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.936 GPixel/s

37.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

29.81 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1184 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

953.9 GFLOPS

74.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

29.81 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Tropo

GPU Name

GM108

Tropo XT

GPU Variant

N16S-GTR-S

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Maxwell

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.5 billion

Transistors

Unknown

123 mm²

Die Size

Unknown

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

23W

-

Suggested PSU

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1 (1.2)

OpenCL

3.0

1.2.170

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

5.0

6.5 (5.1)

Shader Model

5.1

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