AMD FirePro W7170M vs AMD Radeon HD 8950M

VS

AMD FirePro W7170M

AMD Radeon HD 8950M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM FirePro W7170M and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8950M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro W7170M 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 5 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.0GB/s vs 88.00GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro W7170M +79%

2.961 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8950M

1.651 TFLOPS

FirePro W7170M

VS

Radeon HD 8950M

Graphics Card

Oct 2015

Release Date

May 2013

FirePro Mobile

Generation

Solar System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

160.0GB/s

Bandwidth

88.00GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

12

-

2048

Shading Units

768

128

TMUs

48

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

17.20 GPixel/s

92.54 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

51.60 GTexel/s

2.961 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

2.961 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.651 TFLOPS

185.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

103.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

100W

TDP

100W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

Amethyst

GPU Name

Saturn

Amethyst XT GL

GPU Variant

Saturn XT

GCN 3.0

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

5 billion

Transistors

2.08 billion

366 mm²

Die Size

160 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

2.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

6.3

Shader Model

6.3

Related GPU Comparisons

1

AMD FirePro W7170M vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050 Mobile

2

AMD FirePro W7170M vs AMD FirePro W5170M

3

AMD FirePro W7170M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260M

4

AMD FirePro W7170M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280M

5

AMD FirePro W7170M vs AMD Radeon R5 M255

6

AMD FirePro W7170M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 675MX Mac Edition

7

AMD FirePro W7170M vs NVIDIA GeForce 9500M G

8

AMD FirePro W7170M vs AMD Radeon HD 8730A

9

AMD FirePro W7170M vs AMD FirePro M5800

10

AMD FirePro W7170M vs NVIDIA GeForce 8800M GTS

Related News

1

Intel Confirms Panther Lake Adopts 18A Process, ES0 Samples Already Sent to Customers

2

Complete Lineup of Core Ultra 200HX/H/U and Core 200H/U Revealed: 31 Models to Dazzle the Eyes

3

Amechi Unveils V1 Mini PC: Only 0.33L Volume with 150W Power Consumption

4

iPhone 17 Series Set for Major Design Overhaul: Camera Module Transformed into Sleek Strip

5

The Thinnest iPhone Ever! iPhone 17 Air Reportedly Enters Foxconn's NPI Stage

6

Apple Allegedly Cancels M4 Extreme, Originally Planned for Mac Pro with 64-Core CPU and 160-Core GPU

7

Cyberpunk 2077 Update 2.2: Intel Arrow Lake Gaming Performance Soars by 33%!

8

Intel Finally Achieves Frame Generation! 'F1 24' Becomes the First XeSS 2 Game

9

World's First! Intel Arc B580 Graphics Card Arrives Early

10

Linux Creator Criticizes AMD and Intel's x86 Microarchitecture: A Complete Disaster