NVIDIA RTX A5000 Max-Q vs AMD FirePro W6170M
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM RTX A5000 Max Q and 2GB VRAM FirePro W6170M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA RTX A5000 Max-Q 's Advantages
Released 6 years and 8 months late
Boost Clock1350MHz
More VRAM (16GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (384.0GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)
5248 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
RTX A5000 Max Q
+741%
16.59 TFLOPS
FirePro W6170M
1.971 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Apr 2021
Release Date
Aug 2014
Quadro Ampere-M
Generation
FirePro Mobile
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
Clock Speeds
720 MHz
Base Clock
-
1350 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1500 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
Memory
16GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
384.0GB/s
Bandwidth
96.00GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
14
48
SM Count
-
6144
Shading Units
896
192
TMUs
56
96
ROPs
16
192
Tensor Cores
-
48
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
4 MB
L2 Cache
256 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
129.6 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
17.60 GPixel/s
259.2 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
61.60 GTexel/s
16.59 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
16.59 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1.971 TFLOPS
259.2 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
123.2 GFLOPS
Board Design
80W
TDP
Unknown
-
-
-
Portable Device Dependent
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GA104
GPU Name
Emerald
-
GPU Variant
Emerald XT GL
(216-0857001)
Ampere
Architecture
GCN 2.0
Samsung
Foundry
TSMC
8 nm
Process Size
28 nm
17.4 billion
Transistors
2.08 billion
392 mm²
Die Size
160 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
2.1
1.3
Vulkan
1.2.170
8.6
CUDA
-
6.7
Shader Model
6.5
