GeForce GTX 980MX vs FirePro W5170M

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking600not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2011−2020)Maxwell 2.0 (2014−2019)
GPU code nameTropoGM204
Market segmentMobile workstationLaptop
Release date25 August 2014 (10 years ago)1 June 2016 (8 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 cores6401664
Core clock speed900 MHz1050 MHz
Boost clock speed925 MHz1178 MHz
Number of transistors1,500 million5,200 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data148 Watt
Texture fill rate37.00122.5
Floating-point processing power1.184 TFLOPS3.92 TFLOPS
ROPs1664
TMUs40104

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 sizelargeno data
InterfaceMXM-A (3.0)PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectorsNoneNone

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 GB8 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed1125 MHz1500 MHz
Memory bandwidth72 GB/s192.0 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 ConnectorsNo outputsNo outputs
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Supported technologies

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

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API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_1)12 (12_1)
Shader Model5.16.4
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.21.2
Vulkan1.2.1311.1.126
CUDA-5.2

Pros & cons summary


Recency 25 August 2014 1 June 2016
Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 8 GB

GTX 980MX has an age advantage of 1 year, and a 300% higher maximum VRAM amount.

We couldn't decide between FirePro W5170M and GeForce GTX 980MX. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that FirePro W5170M is a mobile workstation card while GeForce GTX 980MX is a mobile workstation one.


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AMD FirePro W5170M
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