AMD FirePro W7170M vs AMD Radeon HD 6850M

VS

AMD FirePro W7170M

AMD Radeon HD 6850M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM FirePro W7170M and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6850M 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 9 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)

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

1248 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 6850M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (50W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro W7170M +174%

2.961 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6850M

1.08 TFLOPS

FirePro W7170M

VS

Radeon HD 6850M

Graphics Card

Oct 2015

Release Date

Jan 2011

FirePro Mobile

Generation

Vancouver

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

10

-

2048

Shading Units

800

128

TMUs

40

32

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

23.14 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.80 GPixel/s

92.54 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

27.00 GTexel/s

2.961 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

2.961 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1080 GFLOPS

185.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

100W

TDP

50W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

Amethyst

GPU Name

Granville

Amethyst XT GL

GPU Variant

Granville PRO

GCN 3.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

5 billion

Transistors

1.04 billion

366 mm²

Die Size

166 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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