AMD FirePro W4170M vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 230M

VS

AMD FirePro W4170M

NVIDIA GeForce GT 230M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM FirePro W4170M and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 230M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro W4170M 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock900MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (64.00GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)

336 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro W4170M +551%

0.691 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 230M

0.106 TFLOPS

FirePro W4170M

VS

GeForce GT 230M

Graphics Card

Apr 2015

Release Date

Jun 2009

FirePro Mobile

Generation

GeForce 200M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

825 MHz

Base Clock

-

900 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

64.00GB/s

Bandwidth

25.60GB/s

Render Config

6

Compute Units

-

SM Count

6

384

Shading Units

48

24

TMUs

16

8

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

7.200 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.000 GPixel/s

21.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

8.000 GTexel/s

-

691.2 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

105.6 GFLOPS

43.20 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

23W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

Opal

GPU Name

GT216

-

GPU Variant

N10P-GE-A2

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.95 billion

Transistors

0.486 billion

77 mm²

Die Size

100 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

11.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.1 (1.2)

OpenCL

1.1

1.2.170

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.2

6.5 (5.1)

Shader Model

4.1

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