AMD FirePro W6170M: specs and benchmarks
Summary
AMD started FirePro W6170M sales 25 August 2014. This is a GCN 2.0 architecture notebook card based on 28 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at designers. 2 GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 1.38 GHz are supplied, and together with 128 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 88 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is a graphics card attached via MXM-B (3.0) interface.
Primary details
Some basic facts about FirePro W6170M: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in the ranking | not rated | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Architecture | GCN 2.0 (2013−2017) | |
| GPU code name | Saturn | |
| Market segment | Mobile workstation | |
| Release date | 25 August 2014 (10 years ago) |
Detailed specifications
FirePro W6170M's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of FirePro W6170M's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 768 | of 21760 (GeForce RTX 5090) |
| Core clock speed | 1075 MHz | of 2670 MHz (Arc B580) |
| Number of transistors | 2,080 million | of 208,000 million (B200 SXM 192 GB) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 28 nm | of 3 nm (Arc Graphics 140V) |
| Texture fill rate | 51.60 | of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
| Floating-point processing power | 1.651 TFLOPS | of 109.7 (GeForce RTX 5090) |
| ROPs | 16 | of 192 (Radeon RX 7900 XTX) |
| TMUs | 48 | of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT) |
Form factor & compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of FirePro W6170M and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).
| Interface | MXM-B (3.0) | |
| Supplementary power connectors | None |
VRAM capacity and type
Parameters of memory installed on FirePro W6170M: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.
| Memory type | GDDR5 | |
| Maximum RAM amount | 2 GB | of 294912 (Radeon Instinct MI325X) |
| Memory bus width | 128 Bit | of 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory clock speed | 1375 MHz | of 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile) |
| Memory bandwidth | 88 GB/s | of 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
Connectivity and outputs
Types and number of video connectors present on FirePro W6170M. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.
| Display Connectors | No outputs |
API compatibility
APIs supported by FirePro W6170M, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 12 (12_0) | |
| Shader Model | 6.3 | |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | |
| OpenCL | 2.0 | |
| Vulkan | 1.2.131 |
NVIDIA equivalent
According to our data, the closest NVIDIA alternative to FirePro W6170M is Quadro K4100M.
Similar GPUs
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Recommended processors
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