FirePro W5170M vs Mobility Radeon HD 5850 Mac Edition
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FirePro W5170M and 1024MB VRAM Mobility Radeon HD 5850 Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
FirePro W5170M Advantages
Released 4 years and 7 months late
Boost Clock925MHz
More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (72.00GB/s vs 64.00GB/s)
Mobility Radeon HD 5850 Mac Edition Advantages
160 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FirePro W5170M
+17%
1184
Mobility Radeon HD 5850 Mac Edition
1005
Graphics Card
Aug 2014
Release Date
Jan 2010
FirePro Mobile
Generation
Manhattan
Mobile
Type
Mobile
MXM-A (3.0)
Bus Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
Clock Speeds
900 MHz
Base Clock
-
925 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1125 MHz
Memory Clock
1000 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
128bit
72.00GB/s
Bandwidth
64.00GB/s
Render Config
10
Compute Units
10
640
Shading Units
800
40
TMUs
40
16
ROPs
16
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
256 KB
L2 Cache
256 KB
Theoretical Performance
14.80 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
10.05 GPixel/s
37.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
25.12 GTexel/s
1184 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1005 GFLOPS
74.00 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
Unknown
TDP
30W
Portable Device Dependent
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
-
Graphics Processor
Tropo
GPU Name
Broadway
Tropo XT
GPU Variant
Broadway PRO
(216-0769024)
(216-0769024)
GCN 1.0
Architecture
TeraScale 2
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
40 nm
1.5 billion
Transistors
1.04 billion
123 mm²
Die Size
166 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_1)
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.4
2.1 (1.2)
OpenCL
1.2
1.2.170
Vulkan
N/A
6.5 (5.1)
Shader Model
5.0
