AMD FirePro W7170M vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4870

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AMD FirePro W7170M

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4870

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM FirePro W7170M and 512MB VRAM Mobility Radeon HD 4870 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 9 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.0GB/s vs 56.83GB/s)

1248 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro W7170M +236%

2.961 TFLOPS

Mobility Radeon HD 4870

0.88 TFLOPS

FirePro W7170M

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Mobility Radeon HD 4870

Graphics Card

Oct 2015

Release Date

Jan 2009

FirePro Mobile

Generation

M9x

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

888 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

160.0GB/s

Bandwidth

56.83GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

10

-

2048

Shading Units

800

128

TMUs

40

32

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

23.14 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

8.800 GPixel/s

92.54 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

22.00 GTexel/s

2.961 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

2.961 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

880.0 GFLOPS

185.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

176.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

100W

TDP

Unknown

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Amethyst

GPU Name

M98

Amethyst XT GL

GPU Variant

M98 XT L2 (216-0732023)

GCN 3.0

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

5 billion

Transistors

0.956 billion

366 mm²

Die Size

256 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

6.3

Shader Model

4.1

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