AMD Radeon Pro Vega II vs AMD FirePro W7170M

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon Pro Vega II and AMD FirePro W7170M videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: Geekbench - OpenCL, GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Pro Vega II

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 1 month(s) later
  • 2.2x more core clock speed: 1574 MHz vs 723 MHz
  • 4757.9x more texture fill rate: 440.3 GTexel/s vs 92.54 GTexel / s
  • 2x more pipelines: 4096 vs 2048
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 7 nm vs 28 nm
  • 8x more maximum memory size: 32 GB vs 4 GB
  • Around 96% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 99518 vs 50809
  • 2.4x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 16149 vs 6796
  • 2.4x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 16149 vs 6796
  • Around 84% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 768 vs 418
  • 4.9x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 15475 vs 3162
Specifications (specs)
Launch date Dec 2019 vs 2 October 2015
Core clock speed 1574 MHz vs 723 MHz
Texture fill rate 440.3 GTexel/s vs 92.54 GTexel / s
Pipelines 4096 vs 2048
Manufacturing process technology 7 nm vs 28 nm
Maximum memory size 32 GB vs 4 GB
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL 99518 vs 50809
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 16149 vs 6796
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 16149 vs 6796
PassMark - G2D Mark 768 vs 418
PassMark - G3D Mark 15475 vs 3162

Reasons to consider the AMD FirePro W7170M

  • 4.8x lower typical power consumption: 100 Watt vs 475 Watt
  • 3.1x more memory clock speed: 5000 MHz vs 1612 MHz
  • Around 20% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 3722 vs 3100
  • Around 20% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 3722 vs 3100
  • Around 20% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3362 vs 2813
  • Around 20% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3362 vs 2813
Specifications (specs)
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 100 Watt vs 475 Watt
Memory clock speed 5000 MHz vs 1612 MHz
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3722 vs 3100
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3722 vs 3100
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3362 vs 2813
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3362 vs 2813

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon Pro Vega II
GPU 2: AMD FirePro W7170M

Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
99518
50809
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
16149
6796
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
16149
6796
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3100
3722
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3100
3722
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
2813
3362
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
2813
3362
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
768
418
PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
15475
3162
Name AMD Radeon Pro Vega II AMD FirePro W7170M
Geekbench - OpenCL 99518 50809
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 16149 6796
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 16149 6796
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3100 3722
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3100 3722
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 2813 3362
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 2813 3362
PassMark - G2D Mark 768 418
PassMark - G3D Mark 15475 3162

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon Pro Vega II AMD FirePro W7170M

Essentials

Architecture GCN 5.1 GCN 3.0
Code name Vega 20 Amethyst
Launch date Dec 2019 2 October 2015
Place in performance rating 166 420
Type Laptop Mobile workstation

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1720 MHz
Compute units 64
Core clock speed 1574 MHz 723 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 7 nm 28 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 880.6 GFLOPS (1:16)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 28.18 TFLOPS (2:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 14.09 TFLOPS
Pipelines 4096 2048
Pixel fill rate 110.1 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 440.3 GTexel/s 92.54 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 475 Watt 100 Watt
Transistor count 13230 million 5,000 million
Floating-point performance 2,961 gflops

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x HDMI, 4x mini-DisplayPort No outputs

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Recommended system power (PSU) 850 Watt
Supplementary power connectors None None
Width Dual-slot
Laptop size large

API support

DirectX 12.1 12.0 (12_0)
OpenCL 2.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.5
Shader Model 6.4
Vulkan

Memory

High bandwidth memory (HBM)
Maximum RAM amount 32 GB 4 GB
Memory bandwidth 825.3 GB/s 160.0 GB / s
Memory bus width 4096 bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 1612 MHz 5000 MHz
Memory type HBM2 GDDR5
Shared memory 0

Technologies

Unified Video Decoder (UVD)
Video Code Engine (VCE)
AMD Eyefinity
AppAcceleration
Enduro