Radeon Pro Vega 56 vs FirePro W5170M
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon Pro Vega 56 and 2GB VRAM FirePro W5170M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon Pro Vega 56 's Advantages
Released 3 years late
Boost Clock has increased by 35% (1250MHz vs 925MHz)
More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (402.4GB/s vs 72.00GB/s)
2944 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon Pro Vega 56
+656%
8960
FirePro W5170M
1184
Graphics Card
Aug 2017
Release Date
Aug 2014
Radeon Pro Mac
Generation
FirePro Mobile
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
MXM-A (3.0)
Clock Speeds
1138 MHz
Base Clock
900 MHz
1250 MHz
Boost Clock
925 MHz
786 MHz
Memory Clock
1125 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
2GB
HBM2
Memory Type
GDDR5
2048bit
Memory Bus
128bit
402.4GB/s
Bandwidth
72.00GB/s
Render Config
56
Compute Units
10
3584
Shading Units
640
224
TMUs
40
64
ROPs
16
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
4 MB
L2 Cache
256 KB
Theoretical Performance
80.00 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
14.80 GPixel/s
280.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
37.00 GTexel/s
17.92 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
8.960 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1184 GFLOPS
560.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
74.00 GFLOPS
Board Design
210W
TDP
Unknown
1x HDMI 2.0b
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Vega 10
GPU Name
Tropo
Vega 10 XL
(215-0894216)
GPU Variant
Tropo XT
GCN 5.0
Architecture
GCN 1.0
GlobalFoundries
Foundry
TSMC
14 nm
Process Size
28 nm
12.5 billion
Transistors
1.5 billion
495 mm²
Die Size
123 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 (11_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
2.1
OpenCL
2.1 (1.2)
1.2
Vulkan
1.2.170
6.4
Shader Model
6.5 (5.1)
