NVIDIA GeForce 940A vs AMD FirePro W4170M

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We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce 940A and 1024MB VRAM FirePro W4170M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 940A 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 25% (1124MHz vs 900MHz)

AMD FirePro W4170M 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (64.00GB/s vs 16.02GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 940A +24%

0.863 TFLOPS

FirePro W4170M

0.691 TFLOPS

GeForce 940A

VS

FirePro W4170M

Graphics Card

Mar 2015

Release Date

Apr 2015

GeForce 900A

Generation

FirePro Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1029 MHz

Base Clock

825 MHz

1124 MHz

Boost Clock

900 MHz

1001 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

16.02GB/s

Bandwidth

64.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

6

384

Shading Units

384

16

TMUs

24

8

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

8.992 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

7.200 GPixel/s

17.98 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

21.60 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

863.2 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

691.2 GFLOPS

26.98 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

43.20 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM108

GPU Name

Opal

-

GPU Variant

-

Maxwell

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

Unknown

Transistors

0.95 billion

Unknown

Die Size

77 mm²

Board Design

33W

TDP

Unknown

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1 (1.2)

1.3

Vulkan

1.2.170

5.0

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.5 (5.1)

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