AMD FirePro W4170M

The AMD FirePro W4170M is a professional workstation graphics card for laptops. It is based on the same Mars chip as the AMD Radeon HD 8790M and similarly clocked. Therefore, the GPU takes position in the mid-range of mobile laptop graphics cards as of 2013. Thanks to its optimized drivers, the W4170M offers a very good performance in professional 3D applications like CAD, while the gaming performance is similar to a Nvidia GeForce GT 750M.

The AMD FirePro M4100 series is based on the GCN architecture and therefore supports DirectX 11.2. The 384 shader cores can also be used with OpenCL as 6 compute units.

The AMD FirePro W4170M was first announced in the Dell Precision M2800 which is remarkably similar to the Dell Latitude E6540 (see our review) that offers a AMD Radeon HD 8790M.

FirePro W Series FirePro W7170M 2048 @ 0.72 GHz 256 Bit @ 5000 MHz FirePro W5170M 640 @ 0.93 GHz 128 Bit @ 4500 MHz FirePro W5130M 512 @ 0.93 GHz 128 Bit @ 4000 MHz FirePro W4170M 384 @ 0.85 - 0.9 GHz 128 Bit @ 4000 MHz FirePro W4190M 384 @ 0.83 - 0.9 GHz 128 Bit @ 4000 MHz
Codename	Mars XTX?
Architecture	GCN
Pipelines	384 - unified
Core Speed	850 - 900 (Boost) MHz
Memory Speed	4000 MHz
Memory Bus Width	128 Bit
Memory Type	GDDR5
Max. Amount of Memory	2048 MB
Shared Memory	no
API	DirectX 11.2, Shader 5.0
Transistor Count	900 Million
technology	28 nm
Features	App Acceleration, PowerPlay, PowerTune, ZeroCore, Enduro, PCI Express 3.0 x16
Notebook Size	medium sized
Date of Announcement	16.11.2012
Link to Manufacturer Page	www.amd.com

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