GeForce GTX 860M OEM vs FirePro W4170M

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking865not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2012−2020)Maxwell (2014−2017)
GPU code nameOpalGM107
Market segmentMobile workstationLaptop
Release date23 April 2015 (10 years ago)5 February 2015 (10 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores384640
Core clock speed825 MHz1020 MHz
Boost clock speed900 MHz1085 MHz
Number of transistors950 million1,870 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data75 Watt
Texture fill rate21.6043.40
Floating-point processing power0.6912 TFLOPS1.389 TFLOPS
ROPs816
TMUs2440
L1 Cache96 KB320 KB
L2 Cache256 KB2 MB

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Laptop sizemedium sizedno data
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x8MXM-B (3.0)
Supplementary power connectorsNoneNone

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR5GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount2 GB2 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed1000 MHz1253 MHz
Memory bandwidth64 GB/s80.19 GB/s
Shared memory--

Connectivity and outputs

This section shows the types and number of video connectors on each GPU. The data applies specifically to desktop reference models (for example, NVIDIA’s Founders Edition). OEM partners often modify both the number and types of ports. On notebook GPUs, video‐output options are determined by the laptop’s design rather than the graphics chip itself.

Display ConnectorsPortable Device DependentNo outputs

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

AppAcceleration+-

API and SDK support

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 (11_1)12 (11_0)
Shader Model6.5 (5.1)5.1
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.1 (1.2)1.2
Vulkan1.2.1701.1.126
CUDA-5.0

Pros & cons summary


Recency 23 April 2015 5 February 2015

W4170M has an age advantage of 2 months.

We couldn't decide between FirePro W4170M and GeForce GTX 860M OEM. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that FirePro W4170M is a mobile workstation graphics card while GeForce GTX 860M OEM is a mobile workstation one.

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