AMD FirePro W6170M vs NVIDIA GeForce 945A

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We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FirePro W6170M and 1024MB VRAM GeForce 945A to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro W6170M 's Advantages

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.00GB/s vs 40.10GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 945A 's Advantages

Released 7 months late

Boost Clock1189MHz

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro W6170M +115%

1.971 TFLOPS

GeForce 945A

0.913 TFLOPS

FirePro W6170M

VS

GeForce 945A

Graphics Card

Aug 2014

Release Date

Mar 2015

FirePro Mobile

Generation

GeForce 900A

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1006 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1189 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1253 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

40.10GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

14

Compute Units

-

896

Shading Units

384

56

TMUs

24

16

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SMM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

17.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.512 GPixel/s

61.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

28.54 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1.971 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

913.2 GFLOPS

123.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

28.54 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Emerald

GPU Name

GM108

Emerald XT GL (216-0857001)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Maxwell

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

Unknown

160 mm²

Die Size

Unknown

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

33W

-

Suggested PSU

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

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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