FirePro W5170M vs Radeon R9 M295X Mac Edition
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FirePro W5170M and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 M295X Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
FirePro W5170M Advantages
Boost Clock925MHz
Radeon R9 M295X Mac Edition Advantages
More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (174.3GB/s vs 72.00GB/s)
1408 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FirePro W5170M
1184
Radeon R9 M295X Mac Edition
+194%
3482
Graphics Card
Aug 2014
Release Date
Nov 2014
FirePro Mobile
Generation
Crystal System
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
1362 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
72.00GB/s
Bandwidth
174.3GB/s
Render Config
10
Compute Units
32
640
Shading Units
2048
40
TMUs
128
16
ROPs
32
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
256 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
Theoretical Performance
14.80 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
27.20 GPixel/s
37.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
108.8 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
3.482 TFLOPS
1184 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
3.482 TFLOPS
74.00 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
217.6 GFLOPS
Board Design
Unknown
TDP
250W
Portable Device Dependent
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
-
Graphics Processor
Tropo
GPU Name
Amethyst
Tropo XT
GPU Variant
Amethyst XT
GCN 1.0
Architecture
GCN 3.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
28 nm
1.5 billion
Transistors
5 billion
123 mm²
Die Size
366 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_1)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
2.1 (1.2)
OpenCL
2.0
1.2.170
Vulkan
1.2
6.5 (5.1)
Shader Model
6.3
