AMD FirePro W6170M vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870

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AMD FirePro W6170M

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FirePro W6170M and 512MB VRAM Mobility Radeon HD 3870 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro W6170M 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 2 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.00GB/s vs 54.40GB/s)

576 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro W6170M +367%

1.971 TFLOPS

Mobility Radeon HD 3870

0.422 TFLOPS

FirePro W6170M

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Mobility Radeon HD 3870

Graphics Card

Aug 2014

Release Date

Jun 2008

FirePro Mobile

Generation

M8x

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

850 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

54.40GB/s

Render Config

14

Compute Units

4

-

896

Shading Units

320

56

TMUs

16

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

17.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.56 GPixel/s

61.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

10.56 GTexel/s

-

1.971 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

422.4 GFLOPS

123.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

84.48 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

55W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

Emerald

GPU Name

M88

Emerald XT GL (216-0857001)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

0.666 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

192 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.1

OpenCL

N/A

1.2.170

Vulkan

N/A

-

6.5

Shader Model

4.1

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