AMD FirePro W6170M vs AMD Radeon R7 A260
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FirePro W6170M and 1024MB VRAM Radeon R7 A260 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD FirePro W6170M 's Advantages
Released 7 months late
More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.00GB/s vs 57.60GB/s)
512 additional rendering cores
AMD Radeon R7 A260 's Advantages
Boost Clock980MHz
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FirePro W6170M
+162%
1.971 TFLOPS
Radeon R7 A260
0.752 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Aug 2014
Release Date
Jan 2014
FirePro Mobile
Generation
All-In-One
Mobile
Type
Mobile
MXM-B (3.0)
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
900 MHz
-
Boost Clock
980 MHz
1500 MHz
Memory Clock
900 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
128bit
96.00GB/s
Bandwidth
57.60GB/s
Render Config
14
Compute Units
6
-
-
-
896
Shading Units
384
56
TMUs
24
16
ROPs
8
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
256 KB
L2 Cache
256 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
17.60 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
7.840 GPixel/s
61.60 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
23.52 GTexel/s
-
-
-
1.971 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
752.6 GFLOPS
123.2 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
Unknown
TDP
Unknown
-
-
-
Portable Device Dependent
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
None
Power Connectors
-
Graphics Processor
Emerald
GPU Name
Topaz
Emerald XT GL
(216-0857001)
GPU Variant
Topaz XT
(216-0858020)
GCN 2.0
Architecture
GCN 3.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
28 nm
2.08 billion
Transistors
1.55 billion
160 mm²
Die Size
125 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_0)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
2.1
OpenCL
2.1
1.2.170
Vulkan
1.2.170
-
-
-
6.5
Shader Model
6.5
