AMD Radeon Pro 580X vs AMD Radeon Pro WX 4170 Mobile

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon Pro 580X and AMD Radeon Pro WX 4170 Mobile videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: Geekbench - OpenCL, GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Pro 580X

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 0 month(s) later
  • Around 10% higher core clock speed: 1100 MHz vs 1002 MHz
  • Around 14% higher boost clock speed: 1200 MHz vs 1053 MHz
  • 2564.2x more texture fill rate: 172.8 GTexel/s vs 67.39 GTexel / s
  • 2.3x more pipelines: 2304 vs 1024
  • 2x more maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 4 GB
  • Around 77% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 36817 vs 20842
  • Around 63% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 698 vs 427
  • 5.4x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 7540 vs 1409
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 18 March 2019 vs 1 March 2017
Core clock speed 1100 MHz vs 1002 MHz
Boost clock speed 1200 MHz vs 1053 MHz
Texture fill rate 172.8 GTexel/s vs 67.39 GTexel / s
Pipelines 2304 vs 1024
Maximum memory size 8 GB vs 4 GB
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL 36817 vs 20842
PassMark - G2D Mark 698 vs 427
PassMark - G3D Mark 7540 vs 1409

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Pro WX 4170 Mobile

  • 3x lower typical power consumption: 50 Watt vs 150 Watt
  • 4.1x more memory clock speed: 7000 MHz vs 1695 MHz (6780 MHz effective)
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 50 Watt vs 150 Watt
Memory clock speed 7000 MHz vs 1695 MHz (6780 MHz effective)

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon Pro 580X
GPU 2: AMD Radeon Pro WX 4170 Mobile

Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
36817
20842
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
698
427
PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
7540
1409
Name AMD Radeon Pro 580X AMD Radeon Pro WX 4170 Mobile
Geekbench - OpenCL 36817 20842
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3643
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3643
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3360
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3360
PassMark - G2D Mark 698 427
PassMark - G3D Mark 7540 1409

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon Pro 580X AMD Radeon Pro WX 4170 Mobile

Essentials

Architecture GCN 4.0 GCN 4.0
Code name Polaris 20 Baffin
Launch date 18 March 2019 1 March 2017
Place in performance rating 349 432
Type Laptop Workstation

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1200 MHz 1053 MHz
Compute units 36
Core clock speed 1100 MHz 1002 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm 14 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 345.6 GFLOPS
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 5.530 TFLOPS
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 5.530 TFLOPS
Pipelines 2304 1024
Pixel fill rate 38.40 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 172.8 GTexel/s 67.39 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 150 Watt 50 Watt
Transistor count 5700 million 3,000 million
Floating-point performance 2,157 gflops

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs No outputs

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x8

API support

DirectX 12 12.0 (12_0)
OpenCL 2.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.5
Shader Model 6.3
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 4 GB
Memory bandwidth 217.0 GB/s 112.0 GB / s
Memory bus width 256 bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 1695 MHz (6780 MHz effective) 7000 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR5

Technologies

Unified Video Decoder (UVD)
Video Code Engine (VCE)