AMD FirePro W5170M vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q

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AMD FirePro W5170M

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FirePro W5170M and 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 39% (1282MHz vs 925MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 72.00GB/s)

3200 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro W5170M

1.184 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q +731%

9.846 TFLOPS

FirePro W5170M

VS

GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q

Graphics Card

Aug 2014

Release Date

Jan 2021

FirePro Mobile

Generation

GeForce 30 Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-A (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

900 MHz

Base Clock

817 MHz

925 MHz

Boost Clock

1282 MHz

1125 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

192bit

72.00GB/s

Bandwidth

288.0GB/s

Render Config

10

Compute Units

-

SM Count

30

640

Shading Units

3840

40

TMUs

120

16

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

120

-

RT Cores

30

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

3 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

14.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

61.54 GPixel/s

37.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

153.8 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

9.846 TFLOPS

1184 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

9.846 TFLOPS

74.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

153.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

60W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Tropo

GPU Name

GA106

Tropo XT

GPU Variant

-

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

8 nm

1.5 billion

Transistors

12 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

276 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1 (1.2)

OpenCL

3.0

1.2.170

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

8.6

6.5 (5.1)

Shader Model

6.6

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