AMD Radeon HD 7970M vs AMD FirePro W4170M

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AMD Radeon HD 7970M

AMD FirePro W4170M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970M and 1024MB VRAM FirePro W4170M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 7970M 's Advantages

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 64.00GB/s)

896 additional rendering cores

AMD FirePro W4170M 's Advantages

Released 3 years late

Boost Clock900MHz

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7970M +214%

2.176 TFLOPS

FirePro W4170M

0.691 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970M

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FirePro W4170M

Graphics Card

Apr 2012

Release Date

Apr 2015

London

Generation

FirePro Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

825 MHz

-

Boost Clock

900 MHz

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

64.00GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

6

-

1280

Shading Units

384

80

TMUs

24

32

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

27.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

7.200 GPixel/s

68.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

21.60 GTexel/s

-

2.176 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

691.2 GFLOPS

136.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

43.20 GFLOPS

Board Design

100W

TDP

Unknown

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Wimbledon

GPU Name

Opal

Wimbledon XT (216-0836036)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

0.95 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

77 mm²

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

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.5 (5.1)

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