AMD FirePro W6170M vs NVIDIA GeForce 940M

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AMD FirePro W6170M

NVIDIA GeForce 940M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FirePro W6170M and 2GB VRAM GeForce 940M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro W6170M 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.00GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

384 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 940M 's Advantages

Released 7 months late

Boost Clock1098MHz

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro W6170M +75%

1.971 TFLOPS

GeForce 940M

1.124 TFLOPS

FirePro W6170M

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GeForce 940M

Graphics Card

Aug 2014

Release Date

Mar 2015

FirePro Mobile

Generation

GeForce 900M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1020 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1098 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

14.40GB/s

Render Config

14

Compute Units

-

896

Shading Units

512

56

TMUs

32

16

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SMM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

17.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.57 GPixel/s

61.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

35.14 GTexel/s

-

1.971 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1124 GFLOPS

123.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

35.14 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

75W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

Emerald

GPU Name

GM107

Emerald XT GL (216-0857001)

GPU Variant

N16S-GT1-KB-B

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Maxwell

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

1.87 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

148 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.2.170

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

5.0

6.5

Shader Model

5.1

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