AMD FirePro W7170M vs NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GT

VS

AMD FirePro W7170M

NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GT

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM FirePro W7170M and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9800M GT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro W7170M 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 3 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.0GB/s vs 51.20GB/s)

1952 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GT 's Advantages

Lower TDP (65W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro W7170M +1133%

2.961 TFLOPS

GeForce 9800M GT

0.24 TFLOPS

FirePro W7170M

VS

GeForce 9800M GT

Graphics Card

Oct 2015

Release Date

Jul 2008

FirePro Mobile

Generation

GeForce 9M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

160.0GB/s

Bandwidth

51.20GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

-

SM Count

12

2048

Shading Units

96

128

TMUs

48

32

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

23.14 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

8.000 GPixel/s

92.54 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

24.00 GTexel/s

2.961 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

2.961 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

240.0 GFLOPS

185.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

100W

TDP

65W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Amethyst

GPU Name

G92

Amethyst XT GL

GPU Variant

NB9E-GT2

GCN 3.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

65 nm

5 billion

Transistors

0.754 billion

366 mm²

Die Size

324 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

6.3

Shader Model

4.0

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