AMD FirePro W7170M vs AMD FirePro M8900

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We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM FirePro W7170M and 2GB VRAM FirePro M8900 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro W7170M 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 6 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.0GB/s vs 115.2GB/s)

1088 additional rendering cores

AMD FirePro M8900 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro W7170M +126%

2.961 TFLOPS

FirePro M8900

1.306 TFLOPS

FirePro W7170M

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FirePro M8900

Graphics Card

Oct 2015

Release Date

Apr 2011

FirePro Mobile

Generation

FirePro Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

160.0GB/s

Bandwidth

115.2GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

32

Compute Units

12

2048

Shading Units

960

128

TMUs

48

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

23.14 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

21.76 GPixel/s

92.54 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

32.64 GTexel/s

2.961 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

2.961 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1306 GFLOPS

185.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Amethyst

GPU Name

Blackcomb

Amethyst XT GL

GPU Variant

Blackcomb XT GL

GCN 3.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

5 billion

Transistors

1.7 billion

366 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Board Design

100W

TDP

75W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

2.0

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

6.3

Shader Model

5.0

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