NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT vs AMD FirePro W4170M

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT

AMD FirePro W4170M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600M GT and 1024MB VRAM FirePro W4170M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro W4170M 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock900MHz

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (64.00GB/s vs 22.40GB/s)

352 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600M GT

0.061 TFLOPS

FirePro W4170M +1032%

0.691 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600M GT

VS

FirePro W4170M

Graphics Card

May 2007

Release Date

Apr 2015

GeForce 8M

Generation

FirePro Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-II

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

825 MHz

-

Boost Clock

900 MHz

700 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

22.40GB/s

Bandwidth

64.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

6

4

SM Count

-

32

Shading Units

384

16

TMUs

24

8

ROPs

8

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

32 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

3.800 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

7.200 GPixel/s

7.600 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

21.60 GTexel/s

-

60.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

691.2 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

43.20 GFLOPS

Board Design

20W

TDP

Unknown

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

Opal

NB8P-GS

GPU Variant

-

Tesla

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

0.95 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

77 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

2.1 (1.2)

N/A

Vulkan

1.2.170

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

6.5 (5.1)

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