AMD FirePro W6170M vs AMD Radeon HD 6870M

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We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FirePro W6170M and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6870M 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 7 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.00GB/s vs 64.00GB/s)

96 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro W6170M +82%

1.971 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6870M

1.08 TFLOPS

FirePro W6170M

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Radeon HD 6870M

Graphics Card

Aug 2014

Release Date

Jan 2011

FirePro Mobile

Generation

Vancouver

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

64.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

14

Compute Units

10

896

Shading Units

800

56

TMUs

40

16

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

17.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.80 GPixel/s

61.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

27.00 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

-

1.971 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1080 GFLOPS

123.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Emerald

GPU Name

Granville

Emerald XT GL (216-0857001)

GPU Variant

Granville XT (216-0769024)

GCN 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

1.04 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

166 mm²

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

50W

-

Suggested PSU

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

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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