AMD FirePro W6170M vs AMD Radeon R9 M290X

VS

AMD FirePro W6170M

AMD Radeon R9 M290X

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FirePro W6170M and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 M290X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro W6170M 's Advantages

Released 7 months late

AMD Radeon R9 M290X 's Advantages

Boost Clock900MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

384 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro W6170M

1.971 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M290X +16%

2.304 TFLOPS

FirePro W6170M

VS

Radeon R9 M290X

Graphics Card

Aug 2014

Release Date

Jan 2014

FirePro Mobile

Generation

Crystal System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

850 MHz

-

Boost Clock

900 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

14

Compute Units

20

-

896

Shading Units

1280

56

TMUs

80

16

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

17.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

28.80 GPixel/s

61.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

72.00 GTexel/s

-

1.971 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.304 TFLOPS

123.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

144.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

100W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Emerald

GPU Name

Neptune

Emerald XT GL (216-0857001)

GPU Variant

Neptune XT (216-0847000)

GCN 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

212 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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