NVIDIA GeForce 940A vs AMD FirePro W6170M

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 940A

AMD FirePro W6170M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce 940A and 2GB VRAM FirePro W6170M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 940A 's Advantages

Released 7 months late

Boost Clock1124MHz

AMD FirePro W6170M 's Advantages

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.00GB/s vs 16.02GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 940A

0.863 TFLOPS

FirePro W6170M +128%

1.971 TFLOPS

GeForce 940A

VS

FirePro W6170M

Graphics Card

Mar 2015

Release Date

Aug 2014

GeForce 900A

Generation

FirePro Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

1029 MHz

Base Clock

-

1124 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1001 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

16.02GB/s

Bandwidth

96.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

14

-

384

Shading Units

896

16

TMUs

56

8

ROPs

16

-

64 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

8.992 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.60 GPixel/s

17.98 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

61.60 GTexel/s

-

863.2 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.971 TFLOPS

26.98 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

123.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

33W

TDP

Unknown

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GM108

GPU Name

Emerald

-

GPU Variant

Emerald XT GL (216-0857001)

Maxwell

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

Unknown

Transistors

2.08 billion

Unknown

Die Size

160 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.2.170

5.0

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.5

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