AMD FirePro W5170M vs AMD Radeon HD 6870M

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We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FirePro W5170M and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6870M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro W5170M 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock925MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (72.00GB/s vs 64.00GB/s)

AMD Radeon HD 6870M 's Advantages

160 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro W5170M +9%

1.184 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6870M

1.08 TFLOPS

FirePro W5170M

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Radeon HD 6870M

Graphics Card

Aug 2014

Release Date

Jan 2011

FirePro Mobile

Generation

Vancouver

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

1000 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

72.00GB/s

Bandwidth

64.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

10

Compute Units

10

640

Shading Units

800

40

TMUs

40

16

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

14.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.80 GPixel/s

37.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

27.00 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1184 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1080 GFLOPS

74.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Tropo

GPU Name

Granville

Tropo XT

GPU Variant

Granville XT (216-0769024)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

1.5 billion

Transistors

1.04 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

166 mm²

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

50W

-

Suggested PSU

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

2.1 (1.2)

OpenCL

1.2

1.2.170

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

6.5 (5.1)

Shader Model

5.0

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