NVIDIA GeForce GTS 260M vs AMD FirePro W5170M

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NVIDIA GeForce GTS 260M AMD FirePro W5170M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTS 260M and 2GB VRAM FirePro W5170M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro W5170M 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock925MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (72.00GB/s vs 57.60GB/s)

544 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTS 260M

0.264 TFLOPS

FirePro W5170M +348%

1.184 TFLOPS

GeForce GTS 260M

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FirePro W5170M

Graphics Card

Jun 2009

Release Date

Aug 2014

GeForce 200M

Generation

FirePro Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-A (3.0)

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

900 MHz

-

Boost Clock

925 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1125 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

57.60GB/s

Bandwidth

72.00GB/s

Render Config

12

SM Count

-

Compute Units

10

96

Shading Units

640

32

TMUs

40

8

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

64 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

4.400 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

14.80 GPixel/s

17.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

37.00 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

264.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1184 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

74.00 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GT215

GPU Name

Tropo

N10E-GS

GPU Variant

Tropo XT

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.727 billion

Transistors

1.5 billion

144 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Board Design

38W

TDP

Unknown

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

2.1 (1.2)

N/A

Vulkan

1.2.170

1.2

CUDA

-

4.1

Shader Model

6.5 (5.1)

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