FirePro W7170M and Radeon HD 8970M - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score FirePro W7170M vs Radeon HD 8970M
FirePro W7170M
3256
Radeon HD 8970M
3992
FirePro W7170M
Radeon HD 8970M
Architecture
GCN 3 (2014−2016)
GCN (2011−2017)
GPU code name
Tonga
Neptune
Market segment
Mobile workstation
Laptop
Release date
October 2015
May 2013
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
-
Boost clock speed
-
900 MHz
Core clock speed
723 MHz
850 MHz
Floating-point performance
2,961 gflops
2,304 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
5,000 million
2,800 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2048
1280
Power consumption (TDP)
100 Watt
100 Watt
Texture fill rate
92.54
72.00
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
5000 MHz
4800 MHz
Memory bandwidth
160.0 GB/s
153.6 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
Eyefinity
+
-
DirectX
12 (12_0)
12 (11_1)
OpenCL
2.0
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.3
5.1
Vulkan
1.2.131
1.2.131
AppAcceleration
+
-