AMD FirePro W6170M vs NVIDIA GeForce MX230

VS

AMD FirePro W6170M

NVIDIA GeForce MX230

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FirePro W6170M and 2GB VRAM GeForce MX230 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 48.06GB/s)

640 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce MX230 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock1531MHz

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro W6170M +151%

1.971 TFLOPS

GeForce MX230

0.784 TFLOPS

FirePro W6170M

VS

GeForce MX230

Graphics Card

Aug 2014

Release Date

Feb 2019

FirePro Mobile

Generation

GeForce MX

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x4

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1519 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1531 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1502 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

48.06GB/s

Render Config

14

Compute Units

-

SM Count

2

896

Shading Units

256

56

TMUs

16

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

17.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

24.50 GPixel/s

61.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

24.50 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

12.25 GFLOPS

1.971 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

783.9 GFLOPS

123.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

24.50 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

10W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Emerald

GPU Name

GP108

Emerald XT GL (216-0857001)

GPU Variant

N17S-G0-A1

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

14 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

1.8 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

74 mm²

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

6.1

6.5

Shader Model

6.4

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