AMD FirePro W5170M vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3850

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AMD FirePro W5170M

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3850

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FirePro W5170M and 512MB VRAM Mobility Radeon HD 3850 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro W5170M 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock925MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (72.00GB/s vs 48.00GB/s)

320 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro W5170M +219%

1.184 TFLOPS

Mobility Radeon HD 3850

0.371 TFLOPS

FirePro W5170M

VS

Mobility Radeon HD 3850

Graphics Card

Aug 2014

Release Date

Jun 2008

FirePro Mobile

Generation

M8x

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-A (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

900 MHz

Base Clock

-

925 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1125 MHz

Memory Clock

750 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

72.00GB/s

Bandwidth

48.00GB/s

Render Config

10

Compute Units

4

-

640

Shading Units

320

40

TMUs

16

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

14.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.280 GPixel/s

37.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

9.280 GTexel/s

-

1184 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

371.2 GFLOPS

74.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

74.24 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

35W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

Tropo

GPU Name

M88

Tropo XT

GPU Variant

-

GCN 1.0

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

1.5 billion

Transistors

0.666 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

192 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.1 (1.2)

OpenCL

N/A

1.2.170

Vulkan

N/A

-

6.5 (5.1)

Shader Model

4.1

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