AMD FirePro W6170M vs AMD Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition

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AMD FirePro W6170M

AMD Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FirePro W6170M and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6970M 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 3 years late

AMD Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition 's Advantages

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

64 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro W6170M +50%

1.971 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition

1.306 TFLOPS

FirePro W6170M

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Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Aug 2014

Release Date

Aug 2011

FirePro Mobile

Generation

Vancouver

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

115.2GB/s

Render Config

14

Compute Units

12

-

896

Shading Units

960

56

TMUs

48

16

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

17.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

21.76 GPixel/s

61.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

32.64 GTexel/s

-

1.971 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1306 GFLOPS

123.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

75W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Emerald

GPU Name

Blackcomb

Emerald XT GL (216-0857001)

GPU Variant

Blackcomb XT (216-0811000)

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

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

-

6.5

Shader Model

5.0

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