AMD FirePro W6170M vs AMD Radeon R5 M420

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We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FirePro W6170M and 4GB VRAM Radeon R5 M420 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro W6170M 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.00GB/s vs 16.00GB/s)

576 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R5 M420 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock850MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro W6170M +262%

1.971 TFLOPS

Radeon R5 M420

0.544 TFLOPS

FirePro W6170M

VS

Radeon R5 M420

Graphics Card

Aug 2014

Release Date

May 2016

FirePro Mobile

Generation

Gem System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

780 MHz

-

Boost Clock

850 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

16.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

14

Compute Units

5

896

Shading Units

320

56

TMUs

20

16

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

Theoretical Performance

17.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.800 GPixel/s

61.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

17.00 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1.971 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

544.0 GFLOPS

123.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

34.00 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Emerald

GPU Name

Jet

Emerald XT GL (216-0857001)

GPU Variant

Jet PRO (216-0856040)

GCN 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

0.69 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

56 mm²

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

Unknown

-

Suggested PSU

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

-

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

-

CUDA

-

6.5

Shader Model

6.5 (5.1)

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