NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960A vs AMD FirePro W7170M

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960A AMD FirePro W7170M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960A 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 960A 's Advantages

Boost Clock1085MHz

Lower TDP (75W vs 100W)

AMD FirePro W7170M 's Advantages

Released 7 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.0GB/s vs 80.19GB/s)

1408 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 960A

1.389 TFLOPS

FirePro W7170M +113%

2.961 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960A

VS

FirePro W7170M

Graphics Card

Mar 2015

Release Date

Oct 2015

GeForce 900A

Generation

FirePro Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1029 MHz

Base Clock

-

1085 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1253 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

80.19GB/s

Bandwidth

160.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

32

640

Shading Units

2048

40

TMUs

128

16

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

17.36 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

23.14 GPixel/s

43.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

92.54 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

2.961 TFLOPS

1389 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.961 TFLOPS

43.40 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

185.1 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM107

GPU Name

Amethyst

N16P-GX-A1

GPU Variant

Amethyst XT GL

Maxwell

Architecture

GCN 3.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.87 billion

Transistors

5 billion

148 mm²

Die Size

366 mm²

Board Design

75W

TDP

100W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

5.0

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.3

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