NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M vs AMD FirePro W6170M

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M AMD FirePro W6170M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970M and 2GB VRAM FirePro W6170M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M 's Advantages

Boost Clock1038MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (120.3GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

384 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 970M +34%

2.657 TFLOPS

FirePro W6170M

1.971 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970M

VS

FirePro W6170M

Graphics Card

Oct 2014

Release Date

Aug 2014

GeForce 900M

Generation

FirePro Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

924 MHz

Base Clock

-

1038 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1253 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

120.3GB/s

Bandwidth

96.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

14

1280

Shading Units

896

80

TMUs

56

48

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

49.82 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.60 GPixel/s

83.04 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

61.60 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.657 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.971 TFLOPS

83.04 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

123.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

Emerald

N16E-GT-A2

GPU Variant

Emerald XT GL (216-0857001)

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

2.08 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

160 mm²

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

Unknown

-

Suggested PSU

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.2.170

5.2

CUDA

-

6.7 (6.4)

Shader Model

6.5

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