AMD FirePro W4170M vs AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

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AMD FirePro W4170M

AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM FirePro W4170M and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 8% (975MHz vs 900MHz)

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (174.7GB/s vs 64.00GB/s)

640 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro W4170M

0.691 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition +189%

1.997 TFLOPS

FirePro W4170M

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Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Apr 2015

Release Date

Nov 2014

FirePro Mobile

Generation

Crystal System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

825 MHz

Base Clock

850 MHz

900 MHz

Boost Clock

975 MHz

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1365 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

64.00GB/s

Bandwidth

174.7GB/s

Render Config

6

Compute Units

16

-

384

Shading Units

1024

24

TMUs

64

8

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

7.200 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

31.20 GPixel/s

21.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

62.40 GTexel/s

-

691.2 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.997 TFLOPS

43.20 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

124.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

80W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Opal

GPU Name

Pitcairn

-

GPU Variant

Pitcairn PRO (215-0828062)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.95 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

77 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1 (1.2)

OpenCL

1.2

1.2.170

Vulkan

1.2

-

6.5 (5.1)

Shader Model

5.1

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