NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q vs AMD FirePro W7170M

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q 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: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 3 month(s) later
  • Around 2% higher core clock speed: 735 MHz vs 723 MHz
  • Around 44% higher pipelines: 2944 vs 2048
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 12 nm vs 28 nm
  • 2.4x more memory clock speed: 12000 MHz vs 5000 MHz
  • 4.2x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 13154 vs 3162
  • Around 29% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 538 vs 418
  • Around 57% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 79991 vs 50809
  • 2.8x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 19139 vs 6796
  • 2.4x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 8905 vs 3722
  • 2.4x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 8060 vs 3362
  • 2.8x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 19139 vs 6796
  • 2.4x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 8905 vs 3722
  • 2.4x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 8060 vs 3362
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 29 January 2019 vs 2 October 2015
Core clock speed 735 MHz vs 723 MHz
Pipelines 2944 vs 2048
Manufacturing process technology 12 nm vs 28 nm
Memory clock speed 12000 MHz vs 5000 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 13154 vs 3162
PassMark - G2D Mark 538 vs 418
Geekbench - OpenCL 79991 vs 50809
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 19139 vs 6796
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 8905 vs 3722
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 8060 vs 3362
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 19139 vs 6796
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 8905 vs 3722
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 8060 vs 3362

Reasons to consider the AMD FirePro W7170M

  • Around 50% lower typical power consumption: 100 Watt vs 150 Watt
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 100 Watt vs 150 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q
GPU 2: AMD FirePro W7170M

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
13154
3162
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
538
418
Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
79991
50809
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
19139
6796
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
8905
3722
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
8060
3362
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
19139
6796
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
8905
3722
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
8060
3362
Name NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q AMD FirePro W7170M
PassMark - G3D Mark 13154 3162
PassMark - G2D Mark 538 418
Geekbench - OpenCL 79991 50809
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 297.996
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 3676.805
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 22.75
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 162.692
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 1116.69
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 19139 6796
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 8905 3722
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 8060 3362
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 19139 6796
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 8905 3722
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 8060 3362
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 7990

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q AMD FirePro W7170M

Essentials

Architecture Turing GCN 3.0
Code name TU104B Amethyst
Launch date 29 January 2019 2 October 2015
Place in performance rating 143 419
Type Laptop Mobile workstation

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1095 MHz
Core clock speed 735 MHz 723 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 12 nm 28 nm
Pipelines 2944 2048
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 150 Watt 100 Watt
Transistor count 13,600 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 256 Bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 12000 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