Product Compare

AMD FirePro W7170M vs AMD Radeon HD 6870 X2

GPU GPU
Graphics Card
Release Date Oct 2015 Jul 2011
Generation FirePro Mobile Northern Islands
Type Mobile Desktop
Bus Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock 1250 MHz 1050 MHz
Memory
Memory Size 4GB 1024MB
Memory Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Memory Bus 256bit 256bit
Bandwidth 160.0GB/s 134.4GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units 32 14
Shading Units 2048 1120
TMUs 128 56
ROPs 32 32
L1 Cache 16 KB (per CU) 8 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache 512 KB 512 KB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate 23.14 GPixel/s 28.80 GPixel/s
Texture Rate 92.54 GTexel/s 50.40 GTexel/s
FP16 (half) 2.961 TFLOPS
FP32 (float) 2.961 TFLOPS 2.016 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) 185.1 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name Amethyst Barts
GPU Variant Amethyst XT GL Barts XT(215-0798000)
Architecture GCN 3.0 TeraScale 2
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Process Size 28 nm 40 nm
Transistors 5 billion 1.7 billion
Die Size 366 mm² 255 mm²
Board Design
TDP 100W 300W
Outputs No outputs 2x DVI1x HDMI 1.3a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.1
Power Connectors None
Suggested PSU 700 W
Graphics Features
DirectX 12 (12_0) 11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL 4.6 4.4
OpenCL 2.0 1.2
Vulkan 1.2 N/A
Shader Model 6.3 5.0