AMD FirePro W4170M vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 555M

VS

AMD FirePro W4170M

NVIDIA GeForce GT 555M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM FirePro W4170M and 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 555M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro W4170M 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock900MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (64.00GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

240 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 555M 's Advantages

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro W4170M +77%

0.691 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 555M

0.389 TFLOPS

FirePro W4170M

VS

GeForce GT 555M

Graphics Card

Apr 2015

Release Date

Mar 2012

FirePro Mobile

Generation

GeForce 500M

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

900 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

64.00GB/s

Bandwidth

28.80GB/s

Render Config

6

Compute Units

-

SM Count

2

384

Shading Units

144

24

TMUs

24

8

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

7.200 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.700 GPixel/s

21.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

16.20 GTexel/s

-

691.2 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

388.8 GFLOPS

43.20 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

32.40 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

35W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

Opal

GPU Name

GF116

-

GPU Variant

N12E-GE2-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.95 billion

Transistors

1.17 billion

77 mm²

Die Size

238 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1 (1.2)

OpenCL

1.1

1.2.170

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

2.1

6.5 (5.1)

Shader Model

5.1

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