NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M vs AMD FirePro W5170M

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M

AMD FirePro W5170M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 860M and 2GB VRAM FirePro W5170M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 17% (1085MHz vs 925MHz)

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (80.19GB/s vs 72.00GB/s)

AMD FirePro W5170M 's Advantages

Released 7 months late

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 860M +17%

1.389 TFLOPS

FirePro W5170M

1.184 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 860M

VS

FirePro W5170M

Graphics Card

Jan 2014

Release Date

Aug 2014

GeForce 800M

Generation

FirePro Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

MXM-A (3.0)

Clock Speeds

1020 MHz

Base Clock

900 MHz

1085 MHz

Boost Clock

925 MHz

1253 MHz

Memory Clock

1125 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

80.19GB/s

Bandwidth

72.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

10

-

640

Shading Units

640

40

TMUs

40

16

ROPs

16

-

64 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

17.36 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

14.80 GPixel/s

43.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

37.00 GTexel/s

-

1389 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1184 GFLOPS

43.40 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

74.00 GFLOPS

Board Design

75W

TDP

Unknown

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GM107

GPU Name

Tropo

N15P-GX-A1

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

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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