AMD FirePro W7170M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950A

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AMD FirePro W7170M

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950A

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM FirePro W7170M and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 950A to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro W7170M 's Advantages

Released 7 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.0GB/s vs 32.03GB/s)

1408 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950A 's Advantages

Boost Clock1124MHz

Lower TDP (75W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro W7170M +105%

2.961 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 950A

1.439 TFLOPS

FirePro W7170M

VS

GeForce GTX 950A

Graphics Card

Oct 2015

Release Date

Mar 2015

FirePro Mobile

Generation

GeForce 900A

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

993 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1124 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1001 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

160.0GB/s

Bandwidth

32.03GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

-

2048

Shading Units

640

128

TMUs

40

32

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SMM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

23.14 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.98 GPixel/s

92.54 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

44.96 GTexel/s

2.961 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

2.961 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1439 GFLOPS

185.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

44.96 GFLOPS

Board Design

100W

TDP

75W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

Amethyst

GPU Name

GM107

Amethyst XT GL

GPU Variant

N16P-GT

GCN 3.0

Architecture

Maxwell

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

5 billion

Transistors

1.87 billion

366 mm²

Die Size

148 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

5.0

6.3

Shader Model

5.1

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