AMD Radeon R9 M470X vs AMD FirePro W7170M

VS

AMD Radeon R9 M470X

AMD FirePro W7170M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 M470X and 4GB VRAM FirePro W7170M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 M470X 's Advantages

Released 7 months late

Boost Clock1100MHz

AMD FirePro W7170M 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.0GB/s vs 76.80GB/s)

1152 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 M470X

1.971 TFLOPS

FirePro W7170M +50%

2.961 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M470X

VS

FirePro W7170M

Graphics Card

May 2016

Release Date

Oct 2015

Gem System

Generation

FirePro Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1000 MHz

Base Clock

-

1100 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

76.80GB/s

Bandwidth

160.0GB/s

Render Config

14

Compute Units

32

-

896

Shading Units

2048

56

TMUs

128

16

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

17.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

23.14 GPixel/s

61.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

92.54 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

2.961 TFLOPS

1.971 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.961 TFLOPS

123.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

185.1 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

100W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Emerald

GPU Name

Amethyst

Emerald XT

GPU Variant

Amethyst XT GL

GCN 2.0

Architecture

GCN 3.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

5 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

366 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

2.0

1.2.170

Vulkan

1.2

-

6.5

Shader Model

6.3

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