AMD FirePro W6170M vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 720A

VS

AMD FirePro W6170M

NVIDIA GeForce GT 720A

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FirePro W6170M and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 720A 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 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.00GB/s vs 16.02GB/s)

800 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro W6170M +561%

1.971 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 720A

0.298 TFLOPS

FirePro W6170M

VS

GeForce GT 720A

Graphics Card

Aug 2014

Release Date

Jul 2014

FirePro Mobile

Generation

GeForce 700A

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1001 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

16.02GB/s

Render Config

14

Compute Units

-

SM Count

2

896

Shading Units

96

56

TMUs

16

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

17.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.100 GPixel/s

61.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

12.40 GTexel/s

-

1.971 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

297.6 GFLOPS

123.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

24.80 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

33W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

Emerald

GPU Name

GF117

Emerald XT GL (216-0857001)

GPU Variant

N14M-GE

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

0.585 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

116 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

1.1

1.2.170

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

2.1

6.5

Shader Model

5.1

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