AMD Radeon E8950 vs AMD FirePro W4170M

VS

AMD Radeon E8950

AMD FirePro W4170M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon E8950 and 1024MB VRAM FirePro W4170M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon E8950 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 11% (1000MHz vs 900MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 64.00GB/s)

1664 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon E8950 +492%

4.096 TFLOPS

FirePro W4170M

0.691 TFLOPS

Radeon E8950

VS

FirePro W4170M

Graphics Card

Sep 2015

Release Date

Apr 2015

Embedded

Generation

FirePro Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

735 MHz

Base Clock

825 MHz

1000 MHz

Boost Clock

900 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

192.0GB/s

Bandwidth

64.00GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

6

-

2048

Shading Units

384

128

TMUs

24

32

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

32.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

7.200 GPixel/s

128.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

21.60 GTexel/s

4.096 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.096 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

691.2 GFLOPS

256.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

43.20 GFLOPS

Board Design

95W

TDP

Unknown

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Amethyst

GPU Name

Opal

E8950

GPU Variant

-

GCN 3.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

5 billion

Transistors

0.95 billion

366 mm²

Die Size

77 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

2.1 (1.2)

1.2

Vulkan

1.2.170

-

6.3

Shader Model

6.5 (5.1)

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