AMD FirePro W6170M vs AMD Radeon HD 6570M Mac Edition

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AMD FirePro W6170M AMD Radeon HD 6570M Mac Edition

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FirePro W6170M and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6570M Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro W6170M 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 10 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.00GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)

496 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro W6170M +310%

1.971 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6570M Mac Edition

0.48 TFLOPS

FirePro W6170M

VS

Radeon HD 6570M Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Aug 2014

Release Date

Oct 2009

FirePro Mobile

Generation

Vancouver

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

MXM-II

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

25.60GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

14

Compute Units

5

896

Shading Units

400

56

TMUs

20

16

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

17.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.800 GPixel/s

61.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

12.00 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1.971 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

480.0 GFLOPS

123.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Emerald

GPU Name

Capilano

Emerald XT GL (216-0857001)

GPU Variant

Capilano XT

GCN 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

0.627 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

104 mm²

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

30W

-

Suggested PSU

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

2.1

OpenCL

1.2

1.2.170

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

6.5

Shader Model

5.0

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