AMD FirePro W6170M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960A

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AMD FirePro W6170M

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960A

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FirePro W6170M and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960A 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 80.19GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960A 's Advantages

Released 7 months late

Boost Clock1085MHz

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro W6170M +41%

1.971 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960A

1.389 TFLOPS

FirePro W6170M

VS

GeForce GTX 960A

Graphics Card

Aug 2014

Release Date

Mar 2015

FirePro Mobile

Generation

GeForce 900A

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1029 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1085 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1253 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

80.19GB/s

Render Config

14

Compute Units

-

896

Shading Units

640

56

TMUs

40

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

17.36 GPixel/s

61.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

43.40 GTexel/s

-

1.971 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1389 GFLOPS

123.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

43.40 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

N16P-GX-A1

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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