AMD FirePro W5170M vs AMD Radeon HD 8850M

VS

AMD FirePro W5170M

AMD Radeon HD 8850M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FirePro W5170M and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8850M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro W5170M 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 48% (925MHz vs 625MHz)

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

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro W5170M +48%

1.184 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8850M

0.8 TFLOPS

FirePro W5170M

VS

Radeon HD 8850M

Graphics Card

Aug 2014

Release Date

Apr 2013

FirePro Mobile

Generation

Solar System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-A (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

900 MHz

Base Clock

575 MHz

925 MHz

Boost Clock

625 MHz

1125 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

72.00GB/s

Bandwidth

64.00GB/s

Render Config

10

Compute Units

10

-

640

Shading Units

640

40

TMUs

40

16

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

14.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.00 GPixel/s

37.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

25.00 GTexel/s

-

1184 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

800.0 GFLOPS

74.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

50.00 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

Unknown

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

Tropo

GPU Name

Venus

Tropo XT

GPU Variant

Venus PRO (216-0846009)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.5 billion

Transistors

1.5 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1 (1.2)

OpenCL

2.1 (1.2)

1.2.170

Vulkan

1.2.170

-

6.5 (5.1)

Shader Model

6.5 (5.1)

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