AMD FirePro W5170M
About GPU
The AMD FirePro W5170M is a solid GPU designed for professional use in mobile workstations. With a base clock of 900MHz and a boost clock of 925MHz, it offers reliable performance for graphics-intensive tasks. The 2GB of GDDR5 memory with a memory clock of 1125MHz ensures smooth rendering and handling of large datasets.
One of the standout features of this GPU is its 640 shading units, allowing for complex and detailed visual processing. The 256KB L2 cache also contributes to efficient data management, reducing latency and improving overall performance.
The theoretical performance of 1.184 TFLOPS makes the FirePro W5170M suitable for a variety of professional applications, including computer-aided design (CAD), 3D modeling, and content creation. It can handle demanding tasks with relative ease, providing a reliable and responsive user experience.
While the TDP of the GPU is unknown, it is designed for mobile workstations, indicating a focus on power efficiency to prolong battery life.
Overall, the AMD FirePro W5170M delivers strong performance for professional users who require a mobile workstation GPU. Its combination of clock speeds, memory capacity, and shading units make it well-equipped to handle the demands of professional applications, making it a solid choice for those in need of reliable and efficient graphics processing on the go.
Basic
Label Name
AMD
Platform
Mobile
Launch Date
August 2014
Model Name
FirePro W5170M
Generation
FirePro Mobile
Base Clock
900MHz
Boost Clock
925MHz
Bus Interface
MXM-A (3.0)
Transistors
1,500 million
Compute Units
10
TMUs
?
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) serve as components of the GPU, which are capable of rotating, scaling, and distorting binary images, and then placing them as textures onto any plane of a given 3D model. This process is called texture mapping.
40
Foundry
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
Architecture
GCN 1.0
Memory Specifications
Memory Size
2GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
Memory Bus
?
The memory bus width refers to the number of bits of data that the video memory can transfer within a single clock cycle. The larger the bus width, the greater the amount of data that can be transmitted instantaneously, making it one of the crucial parameters of video memory. The memory bandwidth is calculated as: Memory Bandwidth = Memory Frequency x Memory Bus Width / 8. Therefore, when the memory frequencies are similar, the memory bus width will determine the size of the memory bandwidth.
128bit
Memory Clock
1125MHz
Bandwidth
?
Memory bandwidth refers to the data transfer rate between the graphics chip and the video memory. It is measured in bytes per second, and the formula to calculate it is: memory bandwidth = working frequency × memory bus width / 8 bits.
72.00 GB/s
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
?
Pixel fill rate refers to the number of pixels a graphics processing unit (GPU) can render per second, measured in MPixels/s (million pixels per second) or GPixels/s (billion pixels per second). It is the most commonly used metric to evaluate the pixel processing performance of a graphics card.
14.80 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
?
Texture fill rate refers to the number of texture map elements (texels) that a GPU can map to pixels in a single second.
37.00 GTexel/s
FP64 (double)
?
An important metric for measuring GPU performance is floating-point computing capability. Double-precision floating-point numbers (64-bit) are required for scientific computing that demands a wide numeric range and high accuracy, while single-precision floating-point numbers (32-bit) are used for common multimedia and graphics processing tasks. Half-precision floating-point numbers (16-bit) are used for applications like machine learning, where lower precision is acceptable.
74.00 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
?
An important metric for measuring GPU performance is floating-point computing capability. Single-precision floating-point numbers (32-bit) are used for common multimedia and graphics processing tasks, while double-precision floating-point numbers (64-bit) are required for scientific computing that demands a wide numeric range and high accuracy. Half-precision floating-point numbers (16-bit) are used for applications like machine learning, where lower precision is acceptable.
1.16
TFLOPS
Miscellaneous
Shading Units
?
The most fundamental processing unit is the Streaming Processor (SP), where specific instructions and tasks are executed. GPUs perform parallel computing, which means multiple SPs work simultaneously to process tasks.
640
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
256KB
TDP
Unknown
Vulkan Version
?
Vulkan is a cross-platform graphics and compute API by Khronos Group, offering high performance and low CPU overhead. It lets developers control the GPU directly, reduces rendering overhead, and supports multi-threading and multi-core processors.
1.2.170
OpenCL Version
2.1 (1.2)
OpenGL
4.6
DirectX
12 (11_1)
Power Connectors
None
Shader Model
6.5 (5.1)
ROPs
?
The Raster Operations Pipeline (ROPs) is primarily responsible for handling lighting and reflection calculations in games, as well as managing effects like anti-aliasing (AA), high resolution, smoke, and fire. The more demanding the anti-aliasing and lighting effects in a game, the higher the performance requirements for the ROPs; otherwise, it may result in a sharp drop in frame rate.
16
Benchmarks
FP32 (float)
Score
1.16
TFLOPS
OpenCL
Score
7535
Compared to Other GPU
FP32 (float)
/ TFLOPS
OpenCL