AMD FirePro W4170M vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT

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AMD FirePro W4170M

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM FirePro W4170M and 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600M GT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro W4170M 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock900MHz

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (64.00GB/s vs 22.40GB/s)

352 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro W4170M +1032%

0.691 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600M GT

0.061 TFLOPS

FirePro W4170M

VS

GeForce 8600M GT

Graphics Card

Apr 2015

Release Date

May 2007

FirePro Mobile

Generation

GeForce 8M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

MXM-II

Clock Speeds

825 MHz

Base Clock

-

900 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

700 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

64.00GB/s

Bandwidth

22.40GB/s

Render Config

6

Compute Units

-

SM Count

4

384

Shading Units

32

24

TMUs

16

8

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

7.200 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.800 GPixel/s

21.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

7.600 GTexel/s

-

691.2 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

60.80 GFLOPS

43.20 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

20W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

Opal

GPU Name

G84

-

GPU Variant

NB8P-GS

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

80 nm

0.95 billion

Transistors

0.289 billion

77 mm²

Die Size

169 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.1 (1.2)

OpenCL

1.1

1.2.170

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

6.5 (5.1)

Shader Model

4.0

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