AMD FirePro W5170M vs AMD Radeon E8870

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We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FirePro W5170M and 4GB VRAM Radeon E8870 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro W5170M 's Advantages

Boost Clock925MHz

AMD Radeon E8870 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 1 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.00GB/s vs 72.00GB/s)

128 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro W5170M

1.184 TFLOPS

Radeon E8870 +29%

1.536 TFLOPS

FirePro W5170M

VS

Radeon E8870

Graphics Card

Aug 2014

Release Date

Sep 2015

FirePro Mobile

Generation

Embedded

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-A (3.0)

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

900 MHz

Base Clock

-

925 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1125 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

72.00GB/s

Bandwidth

96.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

10

Compute Units

12

640

Shading Units

768

40

TMUs

48

16

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

14.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

16.00 GPixel/s

37.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

48.00 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1184 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.536 TFLOPS

74.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

96.00 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Tropo

GPU Name

Saturn

Tropo XT

GPU Variant

Saturn PRO

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.5 billion

Transistors

2.08 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

160 mm²

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

75W

-

Suggested PSU

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1 (1.2)

OpenCL

2.0

1.2.170

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

6.5 (5.1)

Shader Model

6.3

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