Radeon E8950 and FirePro W7170M - video card comparison
Radeon E8950
FirePro W7170M
Architecture
GCN 3.0 (2014−2017)
GCN 3 (2014−2016)
GPU code name
Amethyst
Tonga
Market segment
Desktop
Mobile workstation
Release date
September 2015
October 2015
Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
Boost clock speed
1000 MHz
-
Core clock speed
735 MHz
723 MHz
Floating-point performance
4,096 gflops
2,961 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
5,000 million
5,000 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2048
2048
Power consumption (TDP)
95 Watt
100 Watt
Texture fill rate
128.0
92.54
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
8 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
6000 MHz
5000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
192.0 GB/s
160.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
Eyefinity
-
+
DirectX
12 (12_0)
12 (12_0)
OpenCL
2.0
2.0
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.3
6.3
Vulkan
1.2.131
1.2.131
AppAcceleration
-
+