AMD FirePro W6170M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile

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AMD FirePro W6170M NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FirePro W6170M and 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 Mobile to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock1140MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

1152 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro W6170M

1.971 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980 Mobile +136%

4.669 TFLOPS

FirePro W6170M

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GeForce GTX 980 Mobile

Graphics Card

Aug 2014

Release Date

Sep 2015

FirePro Mobile

Generation

GeForce 900M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1064 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1140 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

224.4GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

14

Compute Units

-

896

Shading Units

2048

56

TMUs

128

16

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

17.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

72.96 GPixel/s

61.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

145.9 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1.971 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.669 TFLOPS

123.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

145.9 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Emerald

GPU Name

GM204

Emerald XT GL (216-0857001)

GPU Variant

N16E-GXX-A1

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

5.2 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

398 mm²

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

Unknown

-

Suggested PSU

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.2.170

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

5.2

6.5

Shader Model

6.7 (6.4)

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