AMD FirePro M8900 vs AMD FirePro W5170M

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AMD FirePro M8900

AMD FirePro W5170M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FirePro M8900 and 2GB VRAM FirePro W5170M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro M8900 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (115.2GB/s vs 72.00GB/s)

320 additional rendering cores

AMD FirePro W5170M 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock925MHz

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro M8900 +10%

1.306 TFLOPS

FirePro W5170M

1.184 TFLOPS

FirePro M8900

VS

FirePro W5170M

Graphics Card

Apr 2011

Release Date

Aug 2014

FirePro Mobile

Generation

FirePro Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

MXM-A (3.0)

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

900 MHz

-

Boost Clock

925 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1125 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

115.2GB/s

Bandwidth

72.00GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

10

-

960

Shading Units

640

48

TMUs

40

32

ROPs

16

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

21.76 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

14.80 GPixel/s

32.64 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

37.00 GTexel/s

-

1306 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1184 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

74.00 GFLOPS

Board Design

75W

TDP

Unknown

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Blackcomb

GPU Name

Tropo

Blackcomb XT GL

GPU Variant

Tropo XT

TeraScale 2

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

1.5 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.1 (1.2)

N/A

Vulkan

1.2.170

-

5.0

Shader Model

6.5 (5.1)

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