AMD FirePro W6170M vs AMD Radeon E8950

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We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FirePro W6170M and 8GB VRAM Radeon E8950 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon E8950 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock1000MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

1152 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro W6170M

1.971 TFLOPS

Radeon E8950 +107%

4.096 TFLOPS

FirePro W6170M

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Radeon E8950

Graphics Card

Aug 2014

Release Date

Sep 2015

FirePro Mobile

Generation

Embedded

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

735 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1000 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

192.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

14

Compute Units

32

896

Shading Units

2048

56

TMUs

128

16

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

17.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

32.00 GPixel/s

61.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

128.0 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

4.096 TFLOPS

1.971 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.096 TFLOPS

123.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

256.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Emerald

GPU Name

Amethyst

Emerald XT GL (216-0857001)

GPU Variant

E8950

GCN 2.0

Architecture

GCN 3.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

5 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

366 mm²

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

95W

-

Suggested PSU

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

2.0

1.2.170

Vulkan

1.2

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CUDA

-

6.5

Shader Model

6.3

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