NVIDIA GeForce 940M vs AMD FirePro W5170M

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We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce 940M and 2GB VRAM FirePro W5170M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 940M 's Advantages

Released 7 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 19% (1098MHz vs 925MHz)

AMD FirePro W5170M 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (72.00GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

128 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 940M

1.124 TFLOPS

FirePro W5170M +5%

1.184 TFLOPS

GeForce 940M

VS

FirePro W5170M

Graphics Card

Mar 2015

Release Date

Aug 2014

GeForce 900M

Generation

FirePro Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

MXM-A (3.0)

Clock Speeds

1020 MHz

Base Clock

900 MHz

1098 MHz

Boost Clock

925 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1125 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

14.40GB/s

Bandwidth

72.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

10

512

Shading Units

640

32

TMUs

40

16

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

17.57 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

14.80 GPixel/s

35.14 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

37.00 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1124 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1184 GFLOPS

35.14 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

74.00 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM107

GPU Name

Tropo

N16S-GT1-KB-B

GPU Variant

Tropo XT

Maxwell

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.87 billion

Transistors

1.5 billion

148 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Board Design

75W

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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