AMD FirePro W6170M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Aug 2014
Sep 2015
Generation
FirePro Mobile
GeForce 900M
Type
Mobile
Mobile
Bus Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
MXM-B (3.0)
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
1753 MHz
Base Clock
—
1064 MHz
Boost Clock
—
1140 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
2GB
8GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
128bit
256bit
Bandwidth
96.00GB/s
224.4GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
14
—
Shading Units
896
2048
TMUs
56
128
ROPs
16
64
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
48 KB (per SMM)
L2 Cache
256 KB
2 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
17.60 GPixel/s
72.96 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
61.60 GTexel/s
145.9 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
1.971 TFLOPS
4.669 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
123.2 GFLOPS
145.9 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Emerald
GM204
GPU Variant
Emerald XT GL(216-0857001)
N16E-GXX-A1
Architecture
GCN 2.0
Maxwell 2.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
28 nm
Transistors
2.08 billion
5.2 billion
Die Size
160 mm²
398 mm²
Board Design
TDP
Unknown
Unknown
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
Portable Device Dependent
Power Connectors
None
None
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (12_0)
12 (12_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
2.1
3.0
Vulkan
1.2.170
1.3
Shader Model
6.5
6.7 (6.4)
CUDA
—
5.2
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.