NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M vs AMD FirePro W5170M

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M

AMD FirePro W5170M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 870M 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 870M 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 5% (967MHz vs 925MHz)

More VRAM (3GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (120.0GB/s vs 72.00GB/s)

704 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 870M +119%

2.599 TFLOPS

FirePro W5170M

1.184 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 870M

VS

FirePro W5170M

Graphics Card

Mar 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

941 MHz

Base Clock

900 MHz

967 MHz

Boost Clock

925 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1125 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

120.0GB/s

Bandwidth

72.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

10

-

1344

Shading Units

640

112

TMUs

40

24

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

384 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

27.08 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

14.80 GPixel/s

108.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

37.00 GTexel/s

-

2.599 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1184 GFLOPS

108.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

74.00 GFLOPS

Board Design

100W

TDP

Unknown

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GK104

GPU Name

Tropo

N15E-GT-A2

GPU Variant

Tropo XT

Kepler

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

3.54 billion

Transistors

1.5 billion

294 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)

1.1

Vulkan

1.2.170

3.0

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.5 (5.1)

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