AMD FirePro W6170M vs AMD Radeon HD 7850M

VS

AMD FirePro W6170M

AMD Radeon HD 7850M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FirePro W6170M and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7850M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro W6170M 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 4 months late

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

256 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro W6170M +128%

1.971 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7850M

0.864 TFLOPS

FirePro W6170M

VS

Radeon HD 7850M

Graphics Card

Aug 2014

Release Date

Apr 2012

FirePro Mobile

Generation

London

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

64.00GB/s

Render Config

14

Compute Units

10

-

896

Shading Units

640

56

TMUs

40

16

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

17.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.80 GPixel/s

61.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

27.00 GTexel/s

-

1.971 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

864.0 GFLOPS

123.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

54.00 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

40W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

Emerald

GPU Name

Heathrow

Emerald XT GL (216-0857001)

GPU Variant

Heathrow PRO

GCN 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

1.5 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

1.2

1.2.170

Vulkan

1.2

-

6.5

Shader Model

5.1

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