FirePro W6170M vs Radeon HD 7550M

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1108not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency6.04no data
ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
GPU code nameThamesSaturn
Market segmentLaptopMobile workstation
Release date7 January 2012 (13 years ago)25 August 2014 (11 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 cores480768
Core clock speed500 MHz1075 MHz
Boost clock speed550 MHzno data
Number of transistors716 million2,080 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)14 Wattno data
Texture fill rate12.0051.60
Floating-point processing power0.48 TFLOPS1.651 TFLOPS
ROPs1616
TMUs2448

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 2.0 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 typeDDR3GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount1 GB2 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed900 MHz1375 MHz
Memory bandwidth28.8 GB/s88 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 ConnectorsNo outputsNo outputs

API and SDK compatibility

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

DirectX11.2 (11_0)12 (12_0)
Shader Model5.06.3
OpenGL4.44.6
OpenCL1.22.0
VulkanN/A1.2.131

Pros & cons summary


Recency 7 January 2012 25 August 2014
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 2 GB
Chip lithography 40 nm 28 nm

W6170M has an age advantage of 2 years, a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 42.9% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 7550M and FirePro W6170M. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon HD 7550M is a notebook graphics card while FirePro W6170M is a mobile workstation one.

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