AMD FirePro W6170M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280M

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AMD FirePro W6170M NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FirePro W6170M and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 280M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro W6170M 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 5 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.00GB/s vs 60.80GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro W6170M +427%

1.971 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 280M

0.374 TFLOPS

FirePro W6170M

VS

GeForce GTX 280M

Graphics Card

Aug 2014

Release Date

Mar 2009

FirePro Mobile

Generation

GeForce 200M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

MXM-IV

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

950 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

60.80GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

16

14

Compute Units

-

896

Shading Units

128

56

TMUs

64

16

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

Theoretical Performance

17.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.360 GPixel/s

61.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

37.44 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1.971 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

374.5 GFLOPS

123.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Emerald

GPU Name

G92

Emerald XT GL (216-0857001)

GPU Variant

N10E-GTX

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

65 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

0.754 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

324 mm²

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

75W

-

Suggested PSU

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

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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