AMD FirePro W6170M vs AMD FirePro M8900
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FirePro W6170M and 2GB VRAM FirePro M8900 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD FirePro W6170M 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 4 months late
AMD FirePro M8900 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (115.2GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)
64 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FirePro W6170M
+50%
1.971 TFLOPS
FirePro M8900
1.306 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Aug 2014
Release Date
Apr 2011
FirePro Mobile
Generation
FirePro Mobile
Mobile
Type
Mobile
MXM-B (3.0)
Bus Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
1500 MHz
Memory Clock
900 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
96.00GB/s
Bandwidth
115.2GB/s
Render Config
14
Compute Units
12
-
-
-
896
Shading Units
960
56
TMUs
48
16
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
256 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
17.60 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
21.76 GPixel/s
61.60 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
32.64 GTexel/s
-
-
-
1.971 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1306 GFLOPS
123.2 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
Unknown
TDP
75W
-
-
-
Portable Device Dependent
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Emerald
GPU Name
Blackcomb
Emerald XT GL
(216-0857001)
GPU Variant
Blackcomb XT GL
GCN 2.0
Architecture
TeraScale 2
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
40 nm
2.08 billion
Transistors
1.7 billion
160 mm²
Die Size
212 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_0)
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.4
2.1
OpenCL
1.2
1.2.170
Vulkan
N/A
-
-
-
6.5
Shader Model
5.0
