AMD Radeon HD 6490M vs AMD FirePro W6170M

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We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 6490M and 2GB VRAM FirePro W6170M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro W6170M 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 7 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.00GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)

736 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6490M

0.256 TFLOPS

FirePro W6170M +669%

1.971 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6490M

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FirePro W6170M

Graphics Card

Jan 2011

Release Date

Aug 2014

Vancouver

Generation

FirePro Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

800 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

25.60GB/s

Bandwidth

96.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

2

Compute Units

14

160

Shading Units

896

8

TMUs

56

4

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

128 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

3.200 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.60 GPixel/s

6.400 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

61.60 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

256.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.971 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

123.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Seymour

GPU Name

Emerald

Seymour XTX S3 (216-0809024)

GPU Variant

Emerald XT GL (216-0857001)

TeraScale 2

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.37 billion

Transistors

2.08 billion

67 mm²

Die Size

160 mm²

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

Unknown

-

Suggested PSU

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.1

N/A

Vulkan

1.2.170

-

CUDA

-

5.0

Shader Model

6.5

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