FirePro W6170M vs GeForce RTX 3070 Mobile

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking124not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency22.48no data
ArchitectureAmpere (2020−2024)GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
GPU code nameGA104Saturn
Market segmentLaptopMobile workstation
Release date12 January 2021 (3 years ago)25 August 2014 (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 cores5120768
Core clock speed1110 MHz1075 MHz
Boost clock speed1560 MHzno data
Number of transistors17,400 million2,080 million
Manufacturing process technology8 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)125 Wattno data
Texture fill rate249.651.60
Floating-point processing power15.97 TFLOPS1.651 TFLOPS
ROPs8016
TMUs16048
Tensor Cores160no data
Ray Tracing Cores40no data

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 sizelargeno data
InterfacePCIe 4.0 x16MXM-B (3.0)
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

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 typeGDDR6GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount8 GB2 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed1750 MHz1375 MHz
Memory bandwidth448.0 GB/s88 GB/s
Shared memory--

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 Ultimate (12_2)12 (12_0)
Shader Model6.56.3
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.02.0
Vulkan1.21.2.131
CUDA8.6-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 12 January 2021 25 August 2014
Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 2 GB
Chip lithography 8 nm 28 nm

RTX 3070 Mobile has an age advantage of 6 years, a 300% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 250% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between GeForce RTX 3070 Mobile and FirePro W6170M. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce RTX 3070 Mobile is a notebook graphics card while FirePro W6170M is a mobile workstation one.


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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Mobile
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