AMD FirePro W7170M vs AMD Radeon HD 6490M Mac Edition

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AMD FirePro W7170M

AMD Radeon HD 6490M Mac Edition

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM FirePro W7170M and 256MB VRAM Radeon HD 6490M Mac Edition 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 5 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.0GB/s vs 25.41GB/s)

1888 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro W7170M +1133%

2.961 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6490M Mac Edition

0.24 TFLOPS

FirePro W7170M

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Radeon HD 6490M Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Oct 2015

Release Date

May 2011

FirePro Mobile

Generation

Vancouver

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

794 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

160.0GB/s

Bandwidth

25.41GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

2

-

2048

Shading Units

160

128

TMUs

8

32

ROPs

4

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

23.14 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.000 GPixel/s

92.54 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

6.000 GTexel/s

2.961 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

2.961 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

240.0 GFLOPS

185.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

100W

TDP

Unknown

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

Amethyst

GPU Name

Seymour

Amethyst XT GL

GPU Variant

Seymour XTX M2 (216-0809000)

GCN 3.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

5 billion

Transistors

0.37 billion

366 mm²

Die Size

67 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

2.0

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

6.3

Shader Model

5.0

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