AMD FirePro W6170M vs NVIDIA GeForce 8700M GT

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AMD FirePro W6170M

NVIDIA GeForce 8700M GT

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FirePro W6170M and 512MB VRAM GeForce 8700M GT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro W6170M 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 2 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.00GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)

864 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro W6170M +2363%

1.971 TFLOPS

GeForce 8700M GT

0.08 TFLOPS

FirePro W6170M

VS

GeForce 8700M GT

Graphics Card

Aug 2014

Release Date

Jun 2007

FirePro Mobile

Generation

GeForce 8M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

MXM-HE

Clock Speeds

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

25.60GB/s

Render Config

14

Compute Units

-

SM Count

4

896

Shading Units

32

56

TMUs

16

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

17.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

5.000 GPixel/s

61.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

10.00 GTexel/s

-

1.971 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

80.00 GFLOPS

123.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

29W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

Emerald

GPU Name

G84

Emerald XT GL (216-0857001)

GPU Variant

NB8E-SE

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

80 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

0.289 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

169 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.1

OpenCL

1.1

1.2.170

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

6.5

Shader Model

4.0

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