NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Mobile vs AMD FirePro W7170M

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Mobile 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: 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, 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), Geekbench - OpenCL.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Mobile

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 3 month(s) later
  • Around 33% higher core clock speed: 960 MHz vs 723 MHz
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 12 nm vs 28 nm
  • Around 25% lower typical power consumption: 80 Watt vs 100 Watt
  • 2.8x more memory clock speed: 14000 MHz vs 5000 MHz
  • Around 29% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 540 vs 418
  • 3.6x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 11355 vs 3162
  • 2.5x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 17150 vs 6796
  • 2.5x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 17150 vs 6796
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 29 January 2019 vs 2 October 2015
Core clock speed 960 MHz vs 723 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 12 nm vs 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 80 Watt vs 100 Watt
Memory clock speed 14000 MHz vs 5000 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 540 vs 418
PassMark - G3D Mark 11355 vs 3162
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 17150 vs 6796
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 17150 vs 6796

Reasons to consider the AMD FirePro W7170M

  • Around 7% higher pipelines: 2048 vs 1920
Specifications (specs)
Pipelines 2048 vs 1920
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3722 vs 3720
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3722 vs 3720
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3362 vs 3358
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3362 vs 3358

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Mobile
GPU 2: AMD FirePro W7170M

PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
540
418
PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
11355
3162
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
17150
6796
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
17150
6796
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3720
3722
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3720
3722
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3358
3362
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3358
3362
Name NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Mobile AMD FirePro W7170M
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 5908
PassMark - G2D Mark 540 418
PassMark - G3D Mark 11355 3162
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 17150 6796
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 17150 6796
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3720 3722
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3720 3722
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3358 3362
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3358 3362
Geekbench - OpenCL 50809

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Mobile AMD FirePro W7170M

Essentials

Architecture Turing GCN 3.0
Code name TU106B Amethyst
Launch date 29 January 2019 2 October 2015
Place in performance rating 205 419
Price now $349.99
Type Laptop Mobile workstation
Value for money (0-100) 62.74

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1200 MHz
Core clock speed 960 MHz 723 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 12 nm 28 nm
Pipelines 1920 2048
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 80 Watt 100 Watt
Transistor count 10,800 million 5,000 million
Floating-point performance 2,961 gflops
Texture fill rate 92.54 GTexel / s

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs No outputs

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Laptop size large
Supplementary power connectors None

API support

DirectX 12.0 12.0 (12_0)
OpenGL 4.6 4.5
Vulkan

Memory

Memory bus width 192 Bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 14000 MHz 5000 MHz
Memory type GDDR6 GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount 4 GB
Memory bandwidth 160.0 GB / s
Shared memory 0

Technologies

AMD Eyefinity
AppAcceleration
Enduro