AMD FirePro W6170M vs AMD Radeon HD 6970M Rebrand

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AMD FirePro W6170M

AMD Radeon HD 6970M Rebrand

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FirePro W6170M and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6970M Rebrand 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 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.00GB/s vs 64.00GB/s)

96 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro W6170M +53%

1.971 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970M Rebrand

1.28 TFLOPS

FirePro W6170M

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Radeon HD 6970M Rebrand

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

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

64.00GB/s

Render Config

14

Compute Units

10

-

896

Shading Units

800

56

TMUs

40

16

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

17.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.80 GPixel/s

61.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

32.00 GTexel/s

-

1.971 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1280 GFLOPS

123.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

75W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

Emerald

GPU Name

Broadway

Emerald XT GL (216-0857001)

GPU Variant

Broadway XT

GCN 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

1.04 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

166 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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