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AMD Firepro W5170M

The AMD Firepro W5170M is a workstation graphics card released on August 25, 2014, built on the GCN architecture using a 28 nm process. It has 640 shading units, 2 GB of GDDR5 memory on a 128-bit bus and a 45 W board power rating. It scores 1,816 in the PassMark G3D benchmark. It supports DirectX 12, OpenGL 4.6 and OpenCL 2.0.

GCNTropo XT28 nmWorkstation

8/10 key specs recorded · 40 facts

Depth: 37 recorded fields, 4 features, 5 PassMark workloads

Specification data last verified October 1, 2026 against PassMark Videocard Benchmark, AMD.com Specifications and Wikipedia GPU list tables (wikigrid-2026-09). Coverage: 8 of 10 tracked specifications recorded.

PassMark Videocard Benchmark AMD.com Specifications Wikipedia GPU list tables (wikigrid-2026-09)PassMark Videocard Benchmark

Shading units

640cores

Memory

2 GB

GDDR5 · 128-bit

Boost clock

n/a

Board power

45 W

Performance

The AMD Firepro W5170M scores 1,816 in the PassMark G3D benchmark, higher than 64.4% of the 2,658 GPUs benchmarked (PassMark rank #1,059), measured across 127 submitted results. Its PassMark G2D score is 327.

PassMark G3D Mark

1,816

Rank #1,059
Faster than 64.4% of 2,658 GPUs
127 samples

0relative to the fastest GPU on record (41,928)

PassMark workload tests

DirectX 9 36 fps

reference: fastest recorded 526 fps · faster than 50.7% of 1,675 GPUs

DirectX 10 7 fps

reference: fastest recorded 231 fps · faster than 42.3% of 1,602 GPUs

DirectX 11 11 fps

reference: fastest recorded 362 fps · faster than 34% of 1,430 GPUs

DirectX 12 9 fps

reference: fastest recorded 213 fps · faster than 32.3% of 1,274 GPUs

GPU Compute 806 ops/s

reference: fastest recorded 26,591 ops/s · faster than 41.5% of 1,447 GPUs

Averages of PassMark PerformanceTest submissions; frames/sec are PassMark test-scene rates, not game FPS. Tests PassMark does not report for this card are omitted. PassMark listing

In the PassMark workload tests the AMD Firepro W5170M averages DirectX 9 36 fps, DirectX 10 7 fps, DirectX 11 11 fps, DirectX 12 9 fps and GPU Compute 806 ops/s, across 127 submitted results. Frames per second are PassMark test-scene rates, not game frame rates.

Theoretical throughput

FP32 (single precision) 1.18 TFLOPS stated by AMD

FP64 (double precision) 0.074 TFLOPS stated by AMD

AMD states a peak of FP32 (single precision) 1.18 TFLOPS and FP64 (double precision) 0.074 TFLOPS for the AMD Firepro W5170M.

As stated by PassMark

Category Mobile

Bus interface PCIe 3.0 x16

Max memory 2 GB

Core clock 925 MHz

Memory clock 1125 MHz

DirectX 12

OpenGL 4.4

First benchmarked 2015-12-01

Samples 127

PassMark listing (collected 2026-10-01)

PassMark's own listing for the AMD Firepro W5170M states the PCIe 3.0 x16 interface, up to 2 GB of memory, a core clock of 925 MHz, DirectX 12 and OpenGL 4.4, first benchmarked on 2015-12-01. These are PassMark's figures, shown separately from the specification tables above.

Graphics processor

Architecture GCN

Codename Tropo XT

Chip Not recorded

Process node 28 nm

Transistors Not recorded

Die size Not recorded

The AMD Firepro W5170M is based on the GCN architecture, uses the Tropo XT graphics processor and is manufactured on a 28 nm process.

Shader configuration

Shading units 640

Compute units Not recorded

Streaming multiprocessors Not recorded

Execution units Not recorded

Texture units (TMUs) Not recorded

Render output units (ROPs) Not recorded

Ray tracing cores Not recorded

Tensor / AI cores Not recorded

XMX engines Not recorded

Infinity cache Not recorded

The AMD Firepro W5170M has 640 shading units.

The AMD Firepro W5170M does not use XMX engines; those are specific to Intel Arc graphics. Feex has no recorded ray tracing core count for the AMD Firepro W5170M.

Memory

Size 2 GB

Type GDDR5

Bus width 128-bit

Bandwidth Not recorded

The AMD Firepro W5170M is equipped with 2 GB of GDDR5 memory and uses a 128-bit memory bus.

Board and power

The AMD Firepro W5170M has a board power rating of 45 W, a total board power of 45 W and it connects over PCIe 3.0 x16.

Board power (TDP) 45 W

Total board power 45 W

Suggested PSU Not recorded

Power connectors Not recorded

Slot width Not recorded

Length Not recorded

Width Not recorded

Height Not recorded

Cooler Not recorded

Max temperature Not recorded

Bus interface PCIe 3.0 x16

Market

Launched August 25, 2014

Launch price Not recorded

Status Not recorded

Form factor Not recorded

Segment Laptop

Series FirePro

The AMD Firepro W5170M was released on August 25, 2014.

Benchmarks

PassMark G3D 1,816

PassMark G2D 327

Rank #1,059

Samples 127

Graphics and compute APIs

The AMD Firepro W5170M supports DirectX 12, OpenGL 4.6 and OpenCL 2.0.

DirectX 12

OpenGL 4.6

OpenCL 2.0

CUDA is an NVIDIA technology and does not apply to the AMD Firepro W5170M. Feex has no recorded Vulkan version for the AMD Firepro W5170M.

Features

The AMD Firepro W5170M has 1 supported feature recorded and 1 feature explicitly listed as not supported outside the media engine. A feature that no source mentions is shown as not listed, never as unsupported.

Compute and AI

Not supported (1)

Explicitly not supported: ECC memory

What it is: Error-correcting memory that detects and fixes memory bit errors, mainly valued in workstation and data-center use.

Not listed (3)

No source Feex holds states whether the AMD Firepro W5170M supports AMD AI accelerators, Tensor cores and AMD CrossFire. That is silence, not a statement that they are unsupported.

ECC memory is explicitly listed as not supported.

Display features

Supported: 10-bit color output

The GPU can send 10-bit-per-channel color to compatible displays for smoother gradients.

Not listed (7)

No source Feex holds states whether the AMD Firepro W5170M supports HDMI 4K output, AMD FreeSync, Stereoscopic 3D, VR ready, 8K display output, HDR output and 12-bit color output. That is silence, not a statement that they are unsupported.

The AMD Firepro W5170M supports 10-bit color output under Display features.

Media engine

Feex holds no codec support statement for the AMD Firepro W5170M.

AMD Unified Video Decoder SupportedAMD's older dedicated video-decoding block found on many GCN-era and earlier Radeon GPUs.

AMD Video Coding Engine SupportedAMD's older dedicated video-encoding block found on many GCN-era Radeon GPUs.

Not listed: H.264 (AVC), HEVC (H.265), AV1 and VP9. No source Feex holds states whether the AMD Firepro W5170M supports these codecs; that is silence, not a statement that they are unsupported.

Media engines recorded for the AMD Firepro W5170M: AMD Unified Video Decoder and AMD Video Coding Engine.

Naming and aliases

The AMD Firepro W5170M is also known by other names: PassMark also lists it as AMD Radeon R9 M275X / M375.

Other names (PassMark) AMD Radeon R9 M275X / M375

Frequently asked questions

How much VRAM does the AMD Firepro W5170M have?

The AMD Firepro W5170M has 2 GB of GDDR5 memory on a 128-bit bus.

How much power does the AMD Firepro W5170M use and what power supply does it need?

The AMD Firepro W5170M has a board power rating of 45 W.

How fast is the AMD Firepro W5170M?

The AMD Firepro W5170M scores 1,816 in the PassMark G3D benchmark, higher than 64.4% of the 2,658 GPUs benchmarked. Its PassMark rank is #1,059. In the PassMark DirectX 12 test it averages 9 fps.