AMD FirePro W6170M vs NVIDIA GeForce 9700M GTS

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AMD FirePro W6170M

NVIDIA GeForce 9700M GTS

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FirePro W6170M and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9700M GTS to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro W6170M 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 1 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.00GB/s vs 51.20GB/s)

848 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro W6170M +1451%

1.971 TFLOPS

GeForce 9700M GTS

0.127 TFLOPS

FirePro W6170M

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GeForce 9700M GTS

Graphics Card

Aug 2014

Release Date

Jul 2008

FirePro Mobile

Generation

GeForce 9M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

51.20GB/s

Render Config

14

Compute Units

-

SM Count

6

896

Shading Units

48

56

TMUs

24

16

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

17.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

8.480 GPixel/s

61.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

12.72 GTexel/s

-

1.971 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

127.2 GFLOPS

123.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

60W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

Emerald

GPU Name

G94

Emerald XT GL (216-0857001)

GPU Variant

NB9E-GS

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

65 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

0.505 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

240 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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