GPU Comparison
RADEON
AMD FirePro W5170M
CORE STATE
Tropo
VRAM
2 GB
CLOCK SPEED
925 MHz
TDP
—
BUS WIDTH
128 bit
ARCHITECTURE
GCN 1.0
PROCESS
28 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2014
VS
RADEON
Radeon HD 7970
CORE STATE
Tahiti
VRAM
3 GB
CLOCK SPEED
—
TDP
250 W
BUS WIDTH
384 bit
ARCHITECTURE
GCN 1.0
PROCESS
28 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2012
PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS
geekbench_opencl
geekbench_vulkan
DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS
SPECIFICATION
FirePro W5170M
HD 7970
Core Specs
Shading Units
640
2,048
+220.0%
Shaders
640
2,048
+220.0%
TMUs
40
128
+220.0%
ROPs
16
32
+100.0%
Compute Units
10
32
+220.0%
Clocks
Base Clock
900 MHz
—
Boost Clock
925 MHz
—
GPU Clock
—
925 MHz
Memory Clock
1125 MHz
4.5 Gbps effective
1375 MHz
5.5 Gbps effective
Memory
Memory Size
2 GB
3 GB
VRAM (MB)
2,048
3,072
+50.0%
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
128 bit
384 bit
Bandwidth
72.00 GB/s
264.0 GB/s
Cache
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
256 KB
768 KB
Performance
Pixel Rate
14.80 GPixel/s
29.60 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
37.00 GTexel/s
118.4 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
1,184.0 GFLOPS
3.789 TFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
74.00 GFLOPS (1:16)
947.2 GFLOPS (1:4)
Power
TDP
—
250 W
TDP (W)
—
250
Suggested PSU
—
600 W
Power Connectors
None
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Architecture
Architecture
GCN 1.0
GCN 1.0
GPU Name
Tropo
Tahiti
Generation
FirePro Mobile
(Wx100M)
Southern Islands
(HD 7900)
Process Size
28 nm
28 nm
Transistors
1,500 million
4,313 million
Die Size
123 mm²
352 mm²
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Density
12.2M / mm²
12.3M / mm²
API Support
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 (11_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Vulkan
1.2.170
1.2.170
OpenCL
2.1 (1.2)
2.1 (1.2)
Shader Model
6.5 (5.1)
6.5 (5.1)
Physical
Slot Width
MXM Module
Dual-slot
Length
—
275 mm
10.8 inches
Height
—
111 mm
4.4 inches
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Bus Interface
MXM-A (3.0)
PCIe 3.0 x16
Other
Launch Price
—
549 USD
Production
End-of-life
End-of-life
Predecessor
FirePro Mobility
Northern Islands
Successor
Radeon Pro Mobile
Sea Islands