NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M vs AMD FirePro W7170M

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M

AMD FirePro W7170M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970M 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 970M 's Advantages

Boost Clock1038MHz

AMD FirePro W7170M 's Advantages

Released 1 years late

More VRAM (4GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.0GB/s vs 120.3GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 970M

2.657 TFLOPS

FirePro W7170M +11%

2.961 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970M

VS

FirePro W7170M

Graphics Card

Oct 2014

Release Date

Oct 2015

GeForce 900M

Generation

FirePro Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

924 MHz

Base Clock

-

1038 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1253 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

120.3GB/s

Bandwidth

160.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

32

-

1280

Shading Units

2048

80

TMUs

128

48

ROPs

32

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

49.82 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

23.14 GPixel/s

83.04 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

92.54 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

2.961 TFLOPS

2.657 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.961 TFLOPS

83.04 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

185.1 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

100W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

Amethyst

N16E-GT-A2

GPU Variant

Amethyst XT GL

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

GCN 3.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

5 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

366 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

5.2

CUDA

-

6.7 (6.4)

Shader Model

6.3

Related GPU Comparisons

1

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M vs AMD Radeon R9 M470

2

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050 Mobile

3

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M vs NVIDIA GeForce 845M

4

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M vs NVIDIA GeForce 9200M GS

5

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M vs AMD Radeon HD 7590M

6

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Mobile

7

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M vs AMD Radeon HD 6450A

8

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 675M

9

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5730

10

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile

Related News

1

AMD Unveils New RX 9070 XT Graphics Card Performance: Positioned Between RX 7900 GRE and RX 7900 XT

2

Double the Excitement! AMD FSR 4.0 to Launch Alongside RX 9070 XT Graphics Card

3

CPU-Z Minor Update: Support for Intel's Four New Products and New Memory

4

CXMT Reportedly Achieves 80% Yield in DDR5 Production

5

Intel Wildcat Lake Appears on Shipping List with FCBGA1516 Socket, Poised to Replace Alder Lake-N

6

The Commencement of ARM and Qualcomm Licensing Dispute Trial: Potential Major Impact on PC Market

7

NVIDIA Allegedly Equips RTX 5080 with 30Gbps Memory Speed, Other Models to Feature 28Gbps

8

Intel Reports High Return Rates for Devices Featuring Snapdragon X Series; Qualcomm Counters with 'Industry Standard' Claim

9

Intel Confirms Panther Lake Adopts 18A Process, ES0 Samples Already Sent to Customers

10

Complete Lineup of Core Ultra 200HX/H/U and Core 200H/U Revealed: 31 Models to Dazzle the Eyes