Tegra 3 vs FirePro W4170M

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking807not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2011−2020)VLIW Vec4 (2010−2013)
GPU code nameOpalTegra 3
Market segmentMobile workstationLaptop
Release date23 April 2015 (9 years ago)9 November 2011 (13 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 cores384no data
Core clock speed825 MHz416 MHz
Boost clock speed900 MHz520 MHz
Number of transistors950 million10 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data20 Watt
Texture fill rate21.604.160
Floating-point processing power0.6912 TFLOPSno data
ROPs88
TMUs248

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 x8IGP
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 typeGDDR5System Shared
Maximum RAM amount2 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width128 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed1000 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth64 GB/sno data
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)N/A
Shader Model6.5 (5.1)no data
OpenGL4.6ES 2.0
OpenCL2.1 (1.2)N/A
Vulkan1.2.170N/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 23 April 2015 9 November 2011
Chip lithography 28 nm 40 nm

W4170M has an age advantage of 3 years, and a 42.9% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between FirePro W4170M and Tegra 3. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that FirePro W4170M is a mobile workstation card while Tegra 3 is a mobile workstation one.


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AMD FirePro W4170M
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