NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460M vs AMD FirePro W7170M

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460M

AMD FirePro W7170M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 460M and 4GB VRAM FirePro W7170M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (50W vs 100W)

AMD FirePro W7170M 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 1 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 1536GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.0GB/s vs 60.00GB/s)

1856 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 460M

0.518 TFLOPS

FirePro W7170M +471%

2.961 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 460M

VS

FirePro W7170M

Graphics Card

Sep 2010

Release Date

Oct 2015

GeForce 400M

Generation

FirePro Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

625 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

1536MB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

60.00GB/s

Bandwidth

160.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

32

4

SM Count

-

192

Shading Units

2048

32

TMUs

128

24

ROPs

32

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

384 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

5.400 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

23.14 GPixel/s

21.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

92.54 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

2.961 TFLOPS

518.4 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.961 TFLOPS

43.20 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

185.1 GFLOPS

Board Design

50W

TDP

100W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GF106

GPU Name

Amethyst

N11E-GS-A1

GPU Variant

Amethyst XT GL

Fermi

Architecture

GCN 3.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.17 billion

Transistors

5 billion

238 mm²

Die Size

366 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

2.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

2.1

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.3

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