AMD FirePro W5170M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M

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AMD FirePro W5170M

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FirePro W5170M and 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 22% (1127MHz vs 925MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.4GB/s vs 72.00GB/s)

896 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro W5170M

1.184 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980M +192%

3.462 TFLOPS

FirePro W5170M

VS

GeForce GTX 980M

Graphics Card

Aug 2014

Release Date

Oct 2014

FirePro Mobile

Generation

GeForce 900M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-A (3.0)

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

900 MHz

Base Clock

1038 MHz

925 MHz

Boost Clock

1127 MHz

1125 MHz

Memory Clock

1253 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

72.00GB/s

Bandwidth

160.4GB/s

Render Config

10

Compute Units

-

640

Shading Units

1536

40

TMUs

96

16

ROPs

64

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

14.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

72.13 GPixel/s

37.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

108.2 GTexel/s

-

1184 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.462 TFLOPS

74.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

108.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

Unknown

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Tropo

GPU Name

GM204

Tropo XT

GPU Variant

N16E-GX-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.5 billion

Transistors

5.2 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

398 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1 (1.2)

OpenCL

3.0

1.2.170

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

5.2

6.5 (5.1)

Shader Model

6.7 (6.4)

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