AMD FirePro W4170M vs AMD Radeon HD 8850M

VS

AMD FirePro W4170M

AMD Radeon HD 8850M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM FirePro W4170M and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8850M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro W4170M 's Advantages

Released 2 years late

Boost Clock has increased by 44% (900MHz vs 625MHz)

AMD Radeon HD 8850M 's Advantages

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

256 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro W4170M

0.691 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8850M +15%

0.8 TFLOPS

FirePro W4170M

VS

Radeon HD 8850M

Graphics Card

Apr 2015

Release Date

Apr 2013

FirePro Mobile

Generation

Solar System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

825 MHz

Base Clock

575 MHz

900 MHz

Boost Clock

625 MHz

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

64.00GB/s

Bandwidth

64.00GB/s

Render Config

6

Compute Units

10

-

384

Shading Units

640

24

TMUs

40

8

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

7.200 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.00 GPixel/s

21.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

25.00 GTexel/s

-

691.2 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

800.0 GFLOPS

43.20 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

50.00 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

Unknown

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

Opal

GPU Name

Venus

-

GPU Variant

Venus PRO (216-0846009)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.95 billion

Transistors

1.5 billion

77 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1 (1.2)

OpenCL

2.1 (1.2)

1.2.170

Vulkan

1.2.170

-

6.5 (5.1)

Shader Model

6.5 (5.1)

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