AMD FirePro W5170M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX

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AMD FirePro W5170M NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX

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

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 27% (1178MHz vs 925MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 72.00GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro W5170M

1.184 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980MX +231%

3.92 TFLOPS

FirePro W5170M

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GeForce GTX 980MX

Graphics Card

Aug 2014

Release Date

Jun 2016

FirePro Mobile

Generation

GeForce 900M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-A (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

900 MHz

Base Clock

1050 MHz

925 MHz

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

1125 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

72.00GB/s

Bandwidth

192.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

10

Compute Units

-

640

Shading Units

1664

40

TMUs

104

16

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

14.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

75.39 GPixel/s

37.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

122.5 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

-

1184 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.920 TFLOPS

74.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

122.5 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Tropo

GPU Name

GM204

Tropo XT

GPU Variant

N16E-GXX-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

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

148W

-

Suggested PSU

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

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

6.4

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