AMD FirePro W6170M vs AMD Radeon R9 M485X

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AMD FirePro W6170M

AMD Radeon R9 M485X

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FirePro W6170M and 8GB VRAM Radeon R9 M485X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 M485X 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 9 months late

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.0GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

1152 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro W6170M

1.971 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M485X +50%

2.961 TFLOPS

FirePro W6170M

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Radeon R9 M485X

Graphics Card

Aug 2014

Release Date

May 2016

FirePro Mobile

Generation

Crystal System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

160.0GB/s

Render Config

14

Compute Units

32

-

896

Shading Units

2048

56

TMUs

128

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

23.14 GPixel/s

61.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

92.54 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

2.961 TFLOPS

1.971 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.961 TFLOPS

123.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

185.1 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

250W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Emerald

GPU Name

Amethyst

Emerald XT GL (216-0857001)

GPU Variant

Amethyst XT

GCN 2.0

Architecture

GCN 3.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

5 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

366 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

2.0

1.2.170

Vulkan

1.2

-

6.5

Shader Model

6.3

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