AMD FirePro W7170M vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 230M

VS

AMD FirePro W7170M

NVIDIA GeForce GT 230M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM FirePro W7170M and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 230M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro W7170M 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 4 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.0GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)

2000 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 230M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (23W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro W7170M +2693%

2.961 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 230M

0.106 TFLOPS

FirePro W7170M

VS

GeForce GT 230M

Graphics Card

Oct 2015

Release Date

Jun 2009

FirePro Mobile

Generation

GeForce 200M

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

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

160.0GB/s

Bandwidth

25.60GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

-

SM Count

6

2048

Shading Units

48

128

TMUs

16

32

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

23.14 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.000 GPixel/s

92.54 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

8.000 GTexel/s

2.961 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

2.961 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

105.6 GFLOPS

185.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

100W

TDP

23W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

Amethyst

GPU Name

GT216

Amethyst XT GL

GPU Variant

N10P-GE-A2

GCN 3.0

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

5 billion

Transistors

0.486 billion

366 mm²

Die Size

100 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.2

6.3

Shader Model

4.1

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