FirePro W5170M vs GeForce Go 6800
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FirePro W5170M and 256MB VRAM GeForce Go 6800 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
FirePro W5170M Advantages
Released 9 years and 9 months late
Boost Clock925MHz
More VRAM (2GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (72.00GB/s vs 35.20GB/s)
640 additional rendering cores
Score
Graphics Card
Aug 2014
Release Date
Nov 2004
FirePro Mobile
Generation
GeForce Go 6
Mobile
Type
Mobile
MXM-A (3.0)
Bus Interface
MXM-III
Clock Speeds
900 MHz
Base Clock
-
925 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1125 MHz
Memory Clock
550 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
256MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
72.00GB/s
Bandwidth
35.20GB/s
Render Config
10
Compute Units
-
640
Shading Units
-
40
TMUs
12
16
ROPs
8
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
256 KB
L2 Cache
-
Theoretical Performance
14.80 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
2.400 GPixel/s
37.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
3.600 GTexel/s
1184 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
-
74.00 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
Unknown
TDP
45W
Portable Device Dependent
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Tropo
GPU Name
NV41
Tropo XT
GPU Variant
-
GCN 1.0
Architecture
Curie
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
130 nm
1.5 billion
Transistors
0.19 billion
123 mm²
Die Size
225 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_1)
DirectX
9.0c (9_3)
4.6
OpenGL
2.0 (full)
2.1 (partial)
2.1 (partial)
2.1 (1.2)
OpenCL
N/A
1.2.170
Vulkan
N/A
6.5 (5.1)
Shader Model
3.0
