AMD FirePro W5170M vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 540M

VS

AMD FirePro W5170M

NVIDIA GeForce GT 540M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FirePro W5170M and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 540M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro W5170M 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock925MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (72.00GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

544 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro W5170M +358%

1.184 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 540M

0.258 TFLOPS

FirePro W5170M

VS

GeForce GT 540M

Graphics Card

Aug 2014

Release Date

Jan 2011

FirePro Mobile

Generation

GeForce 500M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-A (3.0)

Bus Interface

MXM-A (3.0)

Clock Speeds

900 MHz

Base Clock

-

925 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1125 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

72.00GB/s

Bandwidth

28.80GB/s

Render Config

10

Compute Units

-

SM Count

2

640

Shading Units

96

40

TMUs

16

ROPs

4

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

14.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.688 GPixel/s

37.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

10.75 GTexel/s

-

1184 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

258.0 GFLOPS

74.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

21.50 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

35W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

Tropo

GPU Name

GF108

Tropo XT

GPU Variant

N12P-GS-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Fermi

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

1.5 billion

Transistors

0.585 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

116 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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