AMD FirePro W5170M vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 640M Mac Edition

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AMD FirePro W5170M

NVIDIA GeForce GT 640M Mac Edition

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FirePro W5170M and 512MB VRAM GeForce GT 640M Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro W5170M 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock925MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (72.00GB/s vs 40.00GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro W5170M +106%

1.184 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 640M Mac Edition

0.572 TFLOPS

FirePro W5170M

VS

GeForce GT 640M Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Aug 2014

Release Date

Feb 2013

FirePro Mobile

Generation

GeForce 600M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-A (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

900 MHz

Base Clock

-

925 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1125 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

72.00GB/s

Bandwidth

40.00GB/s

Render Config

10

Compute Units

-

640

Shading Units

384

40

TMUs

32

16

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

256 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

14.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

5.960 GPixel/s

37.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

23.84 GTexel/s

-

1184 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

572.2 GFLOPS

74.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

23.84 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

32W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

Tropo

GPU Name

GK107

Tropo XT

GPU Variant

N13P-GS

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Kepler

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.5 billion

Transistors

1.27 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

118 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

1.1

-

CUDA

3.0

6.5 (5.1)

Shader Model

5.1

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