AMD FirePro W6170M vs AMD Radeon HD 8730M

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AMD FirePro W6170M

AMD Radeon HD 8730M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FirePro W6170M and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8730M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro W6170M 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 4 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.00GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 8730M 's Advantages

Boost Clock700MHz

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro W6170M +267%

1.971 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8730M

0.537 TFLOPS

FirePro W6170M

VS

Radeon HD 8730M

Graphics Card

Aug 2014

Release Date

Apr 2013

FirePro Mobile

Generation

Solar System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

650 MHz

-

Boost Clock

700 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

28.80GB/s

Render Config

14

Compute Units

6

-

896

Shading Units

384

56

TMUs

24

16

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

17.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

5.600 GPixel/s

61.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

16.80 GTexel/s

-

1.971 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

537.6 GFLOPS

123.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

33.60 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

Unknown

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

Emerald

GPU Name

Mars

Emerald XT GL (216-0857001)

GPU Variant

Mars S3 PRO (216-0842027)

GCN 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

0.95 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

77 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

2.1 (1.2)

1.2.170

Vulkan

1.2.170

-

6.5

Shader Model

6.5 (5.1)

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