AMD FirePro W5170M vs NVIDIA GeForce 940M

AMD FirePro W5170M
NVIDIA GeForce 940M
640 Shaders
2GB GDDR5
925MHz
384 Shaders
2GB DDR3
1176MHz
Peak AI Performance
1.18 TFLOPS
FP32
Peak AI Performance
3.61 TOPS
INT8
FP32
1.18 TFLOPS
FP32
900 GFLOPS
Form Factor
Soldered
Form Factor
Soldered
TDP
25W
TDP
36W

Peak AI Performance

  • 67% slower vs GeForce 940M
  • 3.06x faster vs FirePro W5170M
FirePro W5170M - 1.18 TFLOPS FP32
x1
GeForce 940M - 3.61 TOPS INT8
x3.06

FP32

  • 31% faster vs GeForce 940M
  • 24% slower vs FirePro W5170M
FirePro W5170M - 1.18 TFLOPS FP32
x1.31
GeForce 940M - 900 GFLOPS FP32
x1
  • 4.5x faster vs GeForce 940M
  • 78% slower vs FirePro W5170M
FirePro W5170M - 72GB/s
x4.5
GeForce 940M - 16GB/s
x1
  • 31% lower vs GeForce 940M
  • 44% higher vs FirePro W5170M
FirePro W5170M - 25W
x1
GeForce 940M - 36W
x1.44
  • 44% faster vs GeForce 940M
  • 31% slower vs FirePro W5170M
FirePro W5170M - GB6 OpenCL 9,060
x1.44
GeForce 940M - GB6 OpenCL 6,290
x1
Manufacturer
AMD
Manufacturer
NVIDIA
Chip Designer
AMD
Chip Designer
NVIDIA
Architecture
GCN 1
Architecture
Maxwell
Family
FirePro W
Family
GeForce 900
Codename
Cape Verde
-
Variant
Tropo XT GLM
Codename
NV118
GM108
-
-
Market Segment
Laptop
Market Segment
Laptop
Release Date
8/25/2014
Release Date
3/12/2015
Foundry
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
Fabrication Node
28nm
Fabrication Node
28nm
Die Size
123 mm²
Die Size
89 mm²
Transistor Count
1.5 Billion
Transistor Count
1.1 Billion
Transistor Density
12.20M/mm²
Transistor Density
12.61M/mm²
Form
Soldered
Form
Soldered
Shading Units
640 Shaders
Shading Units
384 Shaders
Texture Mapping Units
40 TMUs
Texture Mapping Units
24 TMUs
Render Output Units
16 ROPs
Render Output Units
8 ROPs
-
-
Streaming Multiprocessors
3 SMs
Compute Units
10 CUs
-
-
-
925MHz
1072MHz Base
1176MHz
Peak AI Performance
1.18 TFLOPS
FP32
Peak AI Performance
3.61 TOPS
INT8
FP32
1.18 TFLOPS
FP32
900 GFLOPS
FP64
70 GFLOPS
FP64
30 GFLOPS
-
-
INT8
3.61 TOPS
-
-
INT32
0.9 TOPS
Pixel Fillrate
14.8 GPixel/s
Pixel Fillrate
9.408 GPixel/s
Texture Fillrate
37 GTexel/s
Texture Fillrate
28.224 GTexel/s
L1
-
16KB/CU
L1
64KB/SM
-
L2
256KB Shared
L2
1MB Shared
2GB
GDDR5
2GB
DDR3
Bus Width
128Bit
Bus Width
64Bit
Clock
1125MHz
Transfer Rate
4.5GT/s
Bandwidth
72GB/s
Clock
1000MHz
Transfer Rate
2GT/s
Bandwidth
16GB/s
TDP
25W
TDP
36W
Max Resolution
4096x2160
Max Resolution
4096x2304
Max Resolution Refresh Rate
60Hz
Max Resolution Refresh Rate
60Hz
Variable Refresh Rate
-
-
Variable Refresh Rate
G-Sync
FreeSync
Display Stream Compression (DSC)
Not Supported
Display Stream Compression (DSC)
Not Supported
Multi Monitor Support
3
Multi Monitor Support
3
Model
VCE 1.0
No Encoders
-
Codec
AVC (H.264)
-
-
Model
UVD 4.0
No Decoders
Codec
MPEG-1
MPEG-2
MPEG-4
VC-1
AVC (H.264)
-
-
-
-
-
Direct X
12
Direct 3D
11_1
Direct X
12
Direct 3D
11_0
OpenGL
4.6
OpenCL
2.1
Vulkan
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
Vulkan
1.3
Shader Model
6.5
-
-
GFX
6
-
-
-
-
Shader Model
6.7
CUDA
5.0
-
-
PureVideo HD
VP6
VDPAU
Feature Set E
Not a Card
Not a Card
PCIe Version
3.0
PCIe Lanes
16
PCIe Version
3.0
PCIe Lanes
16
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