FirePro M4170 vs Tesla P4

Place in the ranking	295	845
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Power efficiency	22.12	no data
Architecture	Pascal (2016−2021)	GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GPU code name	GP104	Opal
Market segment	Workstation	Mobile workstation
Release date	13 September 2016 (9 years ago)	23 April 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 cores	2560	384
Core clock speed	886 MHz	825 MHz
Boost clock speed	1114 MHz	900 MHz
Number of transistors	7,200 million	950 million
Manufacturing process technology	16 nm	28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	75 Watt	no data
Texture fill rate	178.2	21.60
Floating-point processing power	5.704 TFLOPS	0.6912 TFLOPS
ROPs	64	8
TMUs	160	24
L1 Cache	960 KB	96 KB
L2 Cache	2 MB	256 KB

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).

Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x8
Length	168 mm	no data
Width	1-slot	no data
Supplementary power connectors	None	None

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 type	GDDR5	GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	1 GB
Memory bus width	256 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1502 MHz	1000 MHz
Memory bandwidth	192.3 GB/s	64 GB/s

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 Connectors

No outputs

Portable Device Dependent

API and SDK support

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

DirectX	12 (12_1)	12 (11_1)
Shader Model	6.4	6.5 (5.1)
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
OpenCL	1.2	2.1 (1.2)
Vulkan	1.2.131	1.2.170
CUDA	6.1	-

Synthetic benchmarks

Non-gaming benchmark results comparison. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.

Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark score.

Tesla P4 21.61
+675%

FirePro M4170 2.79

Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.

Tesla P4 9038
+674%

Samples: 52

FirePro M4170 1167
Samples: 25

Gaming performance

Let's see how good the compared graphics cards are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.

Pros & cons summary

Performance score	21.61	2.79
Recency	13 September 2016	23 April 2015
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	1 GB
Chip lithography	16 nm	28 nm

Tesla P4 has a 674.6% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 1 year, a 700% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 75% more advanced lithography process.

The Tesla P4 is our recommended choice as it beats the FirePro M4170 in performance tests.

Be aware that Tesla P4 is a workstation graphics card while FirePro M4170 is a mobile workstation one.