AMD FirePro W6170M vs AMD Radeon R9 M270X

VS

AMD FirePro W6170M

AMD Radeon R9 M270X

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FirePro W6170M and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 M270X 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 88.00GB/s)

128 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R9 M270X 's Advantages

Released 6 months late

Boost Clock1000MHz

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro W6170M +28%

1.971 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M270X

1.536 TFLOPS

FirePro W6170M

VS

Radeon R9 M270X

Graphics Card

Aug 2014

Release Date

Feb 2015

FirePro Mobile

Generation

Gem System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

900 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1000 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

88.00GB/s

Render Config

14

Compute Units

12

-

896

Shading Units

768

56

TMUs

48

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

16.00 GPixel/s

61.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

48.00 GTexel/s

-

1.971 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.536 TFLOPS

123.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

96.00 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

Unknown

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

Emerald

GPU Name

Saturn

Emerald XT GL (216-0857001)

GPU Variant

Saturn PRO (216-0843044)

GCN 2.0

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

2.08 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

160 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

2.1

1.2.170

Vulkan

1.2.170

-

6.5

Shader Model

6.5

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