AMD FirePro W7170M vs AMD Radeon HD 8550M

VS

AMD FirePro W7170M

AMD Radeon HD 8550M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM FirePro W7170M and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 8550M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro W7170M 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 3 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.0GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

1728 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 8550M 's Advantages

Boost Clock850MHz

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro W7170M +444%

2.961 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8550M

0.544 TFLOPS

FirePro W7170M

VS

Radeon HD 8550M

Graphics Card

Oct 2015

Release Date

Jul 2014

FirePro Mobile

Generation

Solar System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

650 MHz

-

Boost Clock

850 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

160.0GB/s

Bandwidth

14.40GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

5

-

2048

Shading Units

320

128

TMUs

20

32

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

23.14 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.800 GPixel/s

92.54 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

17.00 GTexel/s

2.961 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

2.961 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

544.0 GFLOPS

185.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

34.00 GFLOPS

Board Design

100W

TDP

Unknown

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

Amethyst

GPU Name

Sun

Amethyst XT GL

GPU Variant

Sun S3 LE (216-0841036)

GCN 3.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

5 billion

Transistors

0.69 billion

366 mm²

Die Size

56 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

2.1 (1.2)

1.2

Vulkan

1.2.170

-

6.3

Shader Model

6.5 (5.1)

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