AMD FirePro W7170M vs AMD Radeon HD 6990M

VS

AMD FirePro W7170M

AMD Radeon HD 6990M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM FirePro W7170M and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6990M 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 3 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.0GB/s vs 115.2GB/s)

928 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro W7170M +84%

2.961 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6990M

1.602 TFLOPS

FirePro W7170M

VS

Radeon HD 6990M

Graphics Card

Oct 2015

Release Date

Jul 2011

FirePro Mobile

Generation

Vancouver

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

160.0GB/s

Bandwidth

115.2GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

14

-

2048

Shading Units

1120

128

TMUs

56

32

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

23.14 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

22.88 GPixel/s

92.54 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

40.04 GTexel/s

2.961 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

2.961 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.602 TFLOPS

185.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

100W

TDP

100W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Amethyst

GPU Name

Blackcomb

Amethyst XT GL

GPU Variant

Blackcomb XTX (216-0811030)

GCN 3.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

5 billion

Transistors

1.7 billion

366 mm²

Die Size

212 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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