AMD Radeon Pro W6800X vs AMD FirePro W7170M

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon Pro W6800X 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: GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), Geekbench - OpenCL, PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Pro W6800X

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 10 month(s) later
  • 2.5x more core clock speed: 1800 MHz vs 723 MHz
  • 5381.5x more texture fill rate: 498.0 GTexel/s vs 92.54 GTexel / s
  • Around 88% higher pipelines: 3840 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
  • 2.4x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 124439 vs 50809
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 3 Aug 2021 vs 2 October 2015
Core clock speed 1800 MHz vs 723 MHz
Texture fill rate 498.0 GTexel/s vs 92.54 GTexel / s
Pipelines 3840 vs 2048
Manufacturing process technology 7 nm vs 28 nm
Maximum memory size 32 GB vs 4 GB
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3723 vs 3722
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3723 vs 3722
Geekbench - OpenCL 124439 vs 50809

Reasons to consider the AMD FirePro W7170M

  • 4x lower typical power consumption: 100 Watt vs 400 Watt
  • 2.5x more memory clock speed: 5000 MHz vs 2000 MHz (16 Gbps effective)
Specifications (specs)
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 100 Watt vs 400 Watt
Memory clock speed 5000 MHz vs 2000 MHz (16 Gbps effective)
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3362 vs 3360
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3362 vs 3360

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon Pro W6800X
GPU 2: AMD FirePro W7170M

GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3723
3722
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3723
3722
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3360
3362
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3360
3362
Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
124439
50809
Name AMD Radeon Pro W6800X AMD FirePro W7170M
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3723 3722
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3723 3722
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3360 3362
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3360 3362
Geekbench - OpenCL 124439 50809
PassMark - G3D Mark 3162
PassMark - G2D Mark 418
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 6796
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 6796

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon Pro W6800X AMD FirePro W7170M

Essentials

Architecture RDNA 2.0 GCN 3.0
Code name Navi 21 Amethyst
Launch date 3 Aug 2021 2 October 2015
Place in performance rating 426 428
Type Workstation Mobile workstation

Technical info

Boost clock speed 2075 MHz
Compute units 60
Core clock speed 1800 MHz 723 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 7 nm 28 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 996.0 GFLOPS (1:16)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 31.87 TFLOPS (2:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 15.94 TFLOPS
Pipelines 3840 2048
Pixel fill rate 199.2 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 498.0 GTexel/s 92.54 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 400 Watt 100 Watt
Transistor count 26800 million 5,000 million
Floating-point performance 2,961 gflops

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x HDMI, 4x Thunderbolt No outputs

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Length 267 mm (10.5 inches)
Recommended system power (PSU) 800 Watt
Supplementary power connectors None None
Width Quad-slot
Laptop size large

API support

DirectX 12.2 12.0 (12_0)
OpenCL 2.1
OpenGL 4.6 4.5
Shader Model 6.5
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 32 GB 4 GB
Memory bandwidth 512 GB/s 160.0 GB / s
Memory bus width 256 bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 2000 MHz (16 Gbps effective) 5000 MHz
Memory type GDDR6 GDDR5
Shared memory 0

Technologies

AMD Eyefinity
AppAcceleration
Enduro