NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M vs AMD FirePro W6170M

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M

AMD FirePro W6170M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980M 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 980M 's Advantages

Boost Clock1127MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.4GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

640 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 980M +75%

3.462 TFLOPS

FirePro W6170M

1.971 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980M

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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

1038 MHz

Base Clock

-

1127 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1253 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

160.4GB/s

Bandwidth

96.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

14

-

1536

Shading Units

896

96

TMUs

56

64

ROPs

16

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

72.13 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.60 GPixel/s

108.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

61.60 GTexel/s

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3.462 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.971 TFLOPS

108.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

123.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

Unknown

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

Emerald

N16E-GX-A1

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

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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