NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M vs AMD FirePro W7170M

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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

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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

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

32

1280

Shading Units

2048

80

TMUs

128

48

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

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

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FP16 (half)

2.961 TFLOPS

2.657 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.961 TFLOPS

83.04 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

185.1 GFLOPS

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

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

100W

-

Suggested PSU

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

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

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