Radeon HD 8950M vs FirePro W4170M

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking800not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2011−2020)GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
GPU code nameOpalSaturn
Market segmentMobile workstationLaptop
Release date23 April 2015 (9 years ago)14 May 2013 (11 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores384768
Core clock speed825 MHz1075 MHz
Boost clock speed900 MHzno data
Number of transistors950 million2,080 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data100 Watt
Texture fill rate21.6051.60
Floating-point processing power0.6912 TFLOPS1.651 TFLOPS
ROPs816
TMUs2448

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Laptop sizemedium sizedno data
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x8PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno data

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR5GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount2 GB2 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed1000 MHz1375 MHz
Memory bandwidth64 GB/s88 GB/s
Shared memory--

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display ConnectorsPortable Device DependentNo outputs

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

AppAcceleration+-

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 (11_1)12 (12_0)
Shader Model6.5 (5.1)6.3
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.1 (1.2)2.0
Vulkan1.2.1701.2.131

Pros & cons summary


Recency 23 April 2015 14 May 2013

W4170M has an age advantage of 1 year.

We couldn't decide between FirePro W4170M and Radeon HD 8950M. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that FirePro W4170M is a mobile workstation card while Radeon HD 8950M is a mobile workstation one.


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AMD FirePro W4170M
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