AMD FirePro W6170M vs AMD FirePro M6000
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FirePro W6170M and 2GB VRAM FirePro M6000 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD FirePro W6170M 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 1 months late
Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.00GB/s vs 64.00GB/s)
256 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FirePro W6170M
+92%
1.971 TFLOPS
FirePro M6000
1.024 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Aug 2014
Release Date
Jul 2012
FirePro Mobile
Generation
FirePro Mobile
Mobile
Type
Mobile
MXM-B (3.0)
Bus Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
1500 MHz
Memory Clock
1000 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
128bit
96.00GB/s
Bandwidth
64.00GB/s
Render Config
14
Compute Units
10
-
-
-
896
Shading Units
640
56
TMUs
40
16
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
256 KB
L2 Cache
256 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
17.60 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
12.80 GPixel/s
61.60 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
32.00 GTexel/s
-
-
-
1.971 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1024 GFLOPS
123.2 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
64.00 GFLOPS
Board Design
Unknown
TDP
43W
-
-
-
Portable Device Dependent
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Emerald
GPU Name
Heathrow
Emerald XT GL
(216-0857001)
GPU Variant
Heathrow XT GL
(216-0835033)
GCN 2.0
Architecture
GCN 1.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
28 nm
2.08 billion
Transistors
1.5 billion
160 mm²
Die Size
123 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_0)
DirectX
12 (11_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
2.1
OpenCL
1.2
1.2.170
Vulkan
1.2
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-
-
6.5
Shader Model
5.1
