FirePro W4170M and Radeon HD 6850M - video card comparison
FirePro W4170M
Radeon HD 6850M
Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name
Mars XTX?
Granville Pro/LP
Market segment
Mobile workstation
Laptop
Release date
November 2012
January 2011
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
-
Boost clock speed
900 MHz
-
Core clock speed
850 MHz
575 / 675 MHz
Floating-point performance
691.2 gflops
1,080.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
950 million
1,040 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
384
800
Power consumption (TDP)
-
50 Watt
Texture fill rate
21.60
27.00
Memory type
GDDR5
DDR3, GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
1 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
4000 MHz
800 MHz
Memory bandwidth
64 GB/s
25.6 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
DirectX
12 (11_1)
11.2 (11_0)
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.4
Shader Model
5.1
5.0
Vulkan
1.2.131
N/A
AppAcceleration
+
-