AMD FirePro W5170M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M

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AMD FirePro W5170M NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FirePro W5170M and 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 870M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 5% (967MHz vs 925MHz)

More VRAM (3GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (120.0GB/s vs 72.00GB/s)

704 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro W5170M

1.184 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 870M +119%

2.599 TFLOPS

FirePro W5170M

VS

GeForce GTX 870M

Graphics Card

Aug 2014

Release Date

Mar 2014

FirePro Mobile

Generation

GeForce 800M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-A (3.0)

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

900 MHz

Base Clock

941 MHz

925 MHz

Boost Clock

967 MHz

1125 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

192bit

72.00GB/s

Bandwidth

120.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

10

Compute Units

-

640

Shading Units

1344

40

TMUs

112

16

ROPs

24

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

256 KB

L2 Cache

384 KB

Theoretical Performance

14.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

27.08 GPixel/s

37.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

108.3 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1184 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.599 TFLOPS

74.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

108.3 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Tropo

GPU Name

GK104

Tropo XT

GPU Variant

N15E-GT-A2

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Kepler

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.5 billion

Transistors

3.54 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

294 mm²

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

100W

-

Suggested PSU

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

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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