NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850A vs AMD FirePro W5170M

What is the difference between NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850A and AMD FirePro W5170M. Find out which graphics card has better performance.

Graphics Processor (GPU)

GM107GPU NameTropo
N15P-GT-A1Model numberTropo XT
MaxwellArchitectureGCN 1.0
TSMCFoundryTSMC
28 nmProcess Size28 nm
1,870 millionTransistors1,500 million
148 mm²Die Size123 mm²

Graphics Card

Mar 17th, 2014Release DateAug 25th, 2014
GeForce 800AFamilyFirePro Mobile
(Wx100M)
End-of-lifeProductionEnd-of-life
PCIe 3.0 x16Bus InterfaceMXM-A (3.0)

Memory

2 GBMemory Size2 GB
DDR3Memory TypeGDDR5
128 bitMemory Bus128 bit
28.80 GB/sBandwidth72.00 GB/s

Performance

14.98 GPixel/sPixel fillrate14.80 GPixel/s
37.44 GTexel/sTexture fillrate37.00 GTexel/s
1,198 GFLOPSFP32 (float) performance1,184 GFLOPS
37.44 GFLOPS (1:32)FP64 (double) performance74.00 GFLOPS (1:16)

Clock Speeds

902 MHzBase Clock900 MHz
936 MHzBoost Clock925 MHz
900 MHz
1800 Mbps effective
Memory Clock1125 MHz
4.5 Gbps effective

Render Config

640Shading Units640
40TMUs40
16ROPs16
64 KB (per SMM)L1 Cache16 KB (per CU)
2 MBL2 Cache256 KB

Board Design

IGPSlot WidthMXM Module
45 WThermal design power (TDP)unknown
No outputsDisplay ConnectorsNo outputs

API support

12 (11_0)DirectX12 (11_1)
4.6OpenGL4.6
3.0OpenCL1.2
1.1Vulkan1.2
5.1Shader Model5.1