AMD Radeon HD 7870M vs AMD FirePro W5170M

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We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7870M and 2GB VRAM FirePro W5170M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro W5170M 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock925MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (72.00GB/s vs 64.00GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7870M

1.024 TFLOPS

FirePro W5170M +15%

1.184 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7870M

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FirePro W5170M

Graphics Card

Apr 2012

Release Date

Aug 2014

London

Generation

FirePro Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-A (3.0)

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

900 MHz

-

Boost Clock

925 MHz

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1125 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

64.00GB/s

Bandwidth

72.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

10

Compute Units

10

640

Shading Units

640

40

TMUs

40

16

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

12.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

14.80 GPixel/s

32.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

37.00 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1024 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1184 GFLOPS

64.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

74.00 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Heathrow

GPU Name

Tropo

Heathrow XT (216-0835033)

GPU Variant

Tropo XT

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.5 billion

Transistors

1.5 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Board Design

45W

TDP

Unknown

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.1 (1.2)

1.2

Vulkan

1.2.170

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CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.5 (5.1)

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