AMD Radeon HD 6870M vs AMD FirePro W6170M

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AMD Radeon HD 6870M

AMD FirePro W6170M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6870M 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

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.00GB/s vs 64.00GB/s)

96 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6870M

1.08 TFLOPS

FirePro W6170M +82%

1.971 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6870M

VS

FirePro W6170M

Graphics Card

Jan 2011

Release Date

Aug 2014

Vancouver

Generation

FirePro Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

64.00GB/s

Bandwidth

96.00GB/s

Render Config

10

Compute Units

14

-

800

Shading Units

896

40

TMUs

56

16

ROPs

16

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

10.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.60 GPixel/s

27.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

61.60 GTexel/s

-

1080 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.971 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

123.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

50W

TDP

Unknown

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Granville

GPU Name

Emerald

Granville XT (216-0769024)

GPU Variant

Emerald XT GL (216-0857001)

TeraScale 2

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.04 billion

Transistors

2.08 billion

166 mm²

Die Size

160 mm²

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

-

5.0

Shader Model

6.5

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