UHD Graphics G7 vs FirePro W6170M

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureGCN 2.0 (2013−2017)Generation 11.0 (2019−2021)
GPU code nameSaturnLakefield GT2
Market segmentMobile workstationDesktop
Release date25 August 2014 (10 years ago)28 May 2020 (4 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 cores768512
Core clock speed1075 MHz200 MHz
Boost clock speedno data500 MHz
Number of transistors2,080 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology28 nm10 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data15 Watt
Texture fill rate51.6016.00
Floating-point processing power1.651 TFLOPS0.512 TFLOPS
ROPs168
TMUs4832

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).

InterfaceMXM-B (3.0)PCIe 3.0 x1
Widthno dataIGP
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno data

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 typeGDDR5System Shared
Maximum RAM amount2 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width128 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed1375 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth88 GB/sno data

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display ConnectorsNo outputsNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_0)12 (12_1)
Shader Model6.36.4
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.02.1
Vulkan1.2.1311.1

Pros & cons summary


Recency 25 August 2014 28 May 2020
Chip lithography 28 nm 10 nm

UHD Graphics G7 has an age advantage of 5 years, and a 180% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between FirePro W6170M and UHD Graphics G7. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that FirePro W6170M is a mobile workstation card while UHD Graphics G7 is a desktop one.


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