AMD Radeon RX Vega M GL vs AMD FirePro W5170M

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AMD Radeon RX Vega M GL AMD FirePro W5170M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX Vega M GL and 2GB VRAM FirePro W5170M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX Vega M GL 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 9% (1011MHz vs 925MHz)

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (179.2GB/s vs 72.00GB/s)

640 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX Vega M GL +118%

2.588 TFLOPS

FirePro W5170M

1.184 TFLOPS

Radeon RX Vega M GL

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FirePro W5170M

Graphics Card

Feb 2018

Release Date

Aug 2014

Vega

Generation

FirePro Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

IGP

Bus Interface

MXM-A (3.0)

Clock Speeds

931 MHz

Base Clock

900 MHz

1011 MHz

Boost Clock

925 MHz

700 MHz

Memory Clock

1125 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

HBM2

Memory Type

GDDR5

1024bit

Memory Bus

128bit

179.2GB/s

Bandwidth

72.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

20

Compute Units

10

1280

Shading Units

640

80

TMUs

40

32

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

32.35 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

14.80 GPixel/s

80.88 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

37.00 GTexel/s

2.588 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

2.588 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1184 GFLOPS

161.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

74.00 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Polaris 22

GPU Name

Tropo

VegaM XL (D715A714)

GPU Variant

Tropo XT

GCN 4.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

5 billion

Transistors

1.5 billion

208 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Board Design

65W

TDP

Unknown

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

2.1 (1.2)

1.2

Vulkan

1.2.170

-

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.5 (5.1)

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