NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460M vs AMD FirePro W4170M

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460M

AMD FirePro W4170M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 460M and 1024MB VRAM FirePro W4170M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460M 's Advantages

More VRAM (1536GB vs 1024GB)

AMD FirePro W4170M 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock900MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (64.00GB/s vs 60.00GB/s)

192 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 460M

0.518 TFLOPS

FirePro W4170M +33%

0.691 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 460M

VS

FirePro W4170M

Graphics Card

Sep 2010

Release Date

Apr 2015

GeForce 400M

Generation

FirePro Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

825 MHz

-

Boost Clock

900 MHz

625 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

1536MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

60.00GB/s

Bandwidth

64.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

6

4

SM Count

-

192

Shading Units

384

32

TMUs

24

ROPs

8

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

384 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

5.400 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

7.200 GPixel/s

21.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

21.60 GTexel/s

-

518.4 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

691.2 GFLOPS

43.20 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

43.20 GFLOPS

Board Design

50W

TDP

Unknown

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GF106

GPU Name

Opal

N11E-GS-A1

GPU Variant

-

Fermi

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.17 billion

Transistors

0.95 billion

238 mm²

Die Size

77 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

2.1 (1.2)

N/A

Vulkan

1.2.170

2.1

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.5 (5.1)

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