AMD FirePro W4170M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition

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AMD FirePro W4170M

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM FirePro W4170M and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro W4170M 's Advantages

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

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 25% (1124MHz vs 900MHz)

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

256 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro W4170M

0.691 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition +108%

1.439 TFLOPS

FirePro W4170M

VS

GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Apr 2015

Release Date

Mar 2015

FirePro Mobile

Generation

GeForce 900M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

825 MHz

Base Clock

993 MHz

900 MHz

Boost Clock

1124 MHz

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

-

384

Shading Units

640

24

TMUs

40

8

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SMM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

7.200 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.98 GPixel/s

21.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

44.96 GTexel/s

-

691.2 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1439 GFLOPS

43.20 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

44.96 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

75W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

Opal

GPU Name

GM107

-

GPU Variant

N16P-GT

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Maxwell

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.95 billion

Transistors

1.87 billion

77 mm²

Die Size

148 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1 (1.2)

OpenCL

3.0

1.2.170

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

5.0

6.5 (5.1)

Shader Model

5.1

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