AMD FirePro W7170M vs AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

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AMD FirePro W7170M

AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM FirePro W7170M and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 M290X 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 11 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

1024 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition 's Advantages

Boost Clock975MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (174.7GB/s vs 160.0GB/s)

Lower TDP (80W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro W7170M +48%

2.961 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

1.997 TFLOPS

FirePro W7170M

VS

Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Oct 2015

Release Date

Nov 2014

FirePro Mobile

Generation

Crystal System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

850 MHz

-

Boost Clock

975 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1365 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

160.0GB/s

Bandwidth

174.7GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

16

-

2048

Shading Units

1024

128

TMUs

64

32

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

23.14 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

31.20 GPixel/s

92.54 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

62.40 GTexel/s

2.961 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

2.961 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.997 TFLOPS

185.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

124.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

100W

TDP

80W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Amethyst

GPU Name

Pitcairn

Amethyst XT GL

GPU Variant

Pitcairn PRO (215-0828062)

GCN 3.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

5 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

366 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

6.3

Shader Model

5.1

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