AMD Radeon HD 8870M vs AMD FirePro W4170M

VS

AMD Radeon HD 8870M

AMD FirePro W4170M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8870M 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 8870M 's Advantages

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

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

256 additional rendering cores

AMD FirePro W4170M 's Advantages

Released 2 years late

Boost Clock has increased by 16% (900MHz vs 775MHz)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8870M +43%

0.992 TFLOPS

FirePro W4170M

0.691 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8870M

VS

FirePro W4170M

Graphics Card

Apr 2013

Release Date

Apr 2015

Solar System

Generation

FirePro Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

725 MHz

Base Clock

825 MHz

775 MHz

Boost Clock

900 MHz

1125 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

72.00GB/s

Bandwidth

64.00GB/s

Render Config

10

Compute Units

6

-

640

Shading Units

384

40

TMUs

24

16

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

12.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

7.200 GPixel/s

31.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

21.60 GTexel/s

-

992.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

691.2 GFLOPS

62.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

43.20 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

Unknown

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Venus

GPU Name

Opal

Venus XT (216-0846000)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.5 billion

Transistors

0.95 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

77 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1 (1.2)

OpenCL

2.1 (1.2)

1.2.170

Vulkan

1.2.170

-

6.5 (5.1)

Shader Model

6.5 (5.1)

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