AMD FirePro W6170M vs AMD Radeon HD 6950M

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We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FirePro W6170M and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6950M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro W6170M 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 7 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

AMD Radeon HD 6950M 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (115.2GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

64 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro W6170M +76%

1.971 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6950M

1.114 TFLOPS

FirePro W6170M

VS

Radeon HD 6950M

Graphics Card

Aug 2014

Release Date

Jan 2011

FirePro Mobile

Generation

Vancouver

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

115.2GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

14

Compute Units

12

896

Shading Units

960

56

TMUs

48

16

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

17.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

18.56 GPixel/s

61.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

27.84 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1.971 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1114 GFLOPS

123.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Emerald

GPU Name

Blackcomb

Emerald XT GL (216-0857001)

GPU Variant

Blackcomb PRO

GCN 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

1.7 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

50W

-

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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