AMD FirePro W4170M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M

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AMD FirePro W4170M

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM FirePro W4170M and 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro W4170M 's Advantages

Released 6 months late

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 25% (1127MHz vs 900MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.4GB/s vs 64.00GB/s)

1152 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro W4170M

0.691 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980M +401%

3.462 TFLOPS

FirePro W4170M

VS

GeForce GTX 980M

Graphics Card

Apr 2015

Release Date

Oct 2014

FirePro Mobile

Generation

GeForce 900M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

825 MHz

Base Clock

1038 MHz

900 MHz

Boost Clock

1127 MHz

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1253 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

64.00GB/s

Bandwidth

160.4GB/s

Render Config

6

Compute Units

-

384

Shading Units

1536

24

TMUs

96

8

ROPs

64

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

7.200 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

72.13 GPixel/s

21.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

108.2 GTexel/s

-

691.2 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.462 TFLOPS

43.20 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

108.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

Unknown

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Opal

GPU Name

GM204

-

GPU Variant

N16E-GX-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.95 billion

Transistors

5.2 billion

77 mm²

Die Size

398 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1 (1.2)

OpenCL

3.0

1.2.170

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

5.2

6.5 (5.1)

Shader Model

6.7 (6.4)

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