AMD Radeon HD 6850M vs AMD FirePro W4170M

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We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6850M and 1024MB VRAM FirePro W4170M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6850M 's Advantages

416 additional rendering cores

AMD FirePro W4170M 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock900MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (64.00GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6850M +56%

1.08 TFLOPS

FirePro W4170M

0.691 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6850M

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FirePro W4170M

Graphics Card

Jan 2011

Release Date

Apr 2015

Vancouver

Generation

FirePro Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

825 MHz

-

Boost Clock

900 MHz

800 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

25.60GB/s

Bandwidth

64.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

10

Compute Units

6

800

Shading Units

384

40

TMUs

24

16

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

10.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

7.200 GPixel/s

27.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

21.60 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1080 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

691.2 GFLOPS

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FP64 (double)

43.20 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Granville

GPU Name

Opal

Granville PRO

GPU Variant

-

TeraScale 2

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.04 billion

Transistors

0.95 billion

166 mm²

Die Size

77 mm²

Board Design

50W

TDP

Unknown

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.1 (1.2)

N/A

Vulkan

1.2.170

-

CUDA

-

5.0

Shader Model

6.5 (5.1)

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