FirePro W5170M vs GeForce GT 420M
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FirePro W5170M and 512MB VRAM GeForce GT 420M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
FirePro W5170M Advantages
Released 3 years and 11 months late
Boost Clock925MHz
More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (72.00GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)
544 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FirePro W5170M
+516%
1184
GeForce GT 420M
192
3DMark Time Spy
FirePro W5170M
+657%
788
GeForce GT 420M
104
Graphics Card
Aug 2014
Release Date
Sep 2010
FirePro Mobile
Generation
GeForce 400M
Mobile
Type
Mobile
MXM-A (3.0)
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
900 MHz
Base Clock
-
925 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1125 MHz
Memory Clock
800 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
DDR3
128bit
Memory Bus
128bit
72.00GB/s
Bandwidth
25.60GB/s
Render Config
10
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
2
640
Shading Units
96
40
TMUs
16
16
ROPs
4
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
256 KB
L2 Cache
256 KB
Theoretical Performance
14.80 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
2.000 GPixel/s
37.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
8.000 GTexel/s
1184 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
192.0 GFLOPS
74.00 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
16.00 GFLOPS
Board Design
Unknown
TDP
23W
Portable Device Dependent
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
-
Graphics Processor
Tropo
GPU Name
GF108
Tropo XT
GPU Variant
N11P-GE-A1
GCN 1.0
Architecture
Fermi
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
40 nm
1.5 billion
Transistors
0.585 billion
123 mm²
Die Size
116 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_1)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
2.1 (1.2)
OpenCL
1.1
1.2.170
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
2.1
6.5 (5.1)
Shader Model
5.1