AMD FirePro W5170M vs AMD Radeon HD 7970M

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AMD FirePro W5170M

AMD Radeon HD 7970M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FirePro W5170M and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro W5170M 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock925MHz

AMD Radeon HD 7970M 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 72.00GB/s)

640 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro W5170M

1.184 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970M +83%

2.176 TFLOPS

FirePro W5170M

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Radeon HD 7970M

Graphics Card

Aug 2014

Release Date

Apr 2012

FirePro Mobile

Generation

London

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

1200 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

72.00GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

10

Compute Units

20

-

640

Shading Units

1280

40

TMUs

80

16

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

14.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

27.20 GPixel/s

37.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

68.00 GTexel/s

-

1184 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.176 TFLOPS

74.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

136.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

100W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Tropo

GPU Name

Wimbledon

Tropo XT

GPU Variant

Wimbledon XT (216-0836036)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.5 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1 (1.2)

OpenCL

1.2

1.2.170

Vulkan

1.2

-

6.5 (5.1)

Shader Model

5.1

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