AMD Radeon Pro WX 4170 Mobile vs AMD FirePro W8000

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon Pro WX 4170 Mobile and AMD FirePro W8000 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

AMD Radeon Pro WX 4170 Mobile

AMD FirePro W8000

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Pro WX 4170 Mobile

Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 8 month(s) later
Around 11% higher core clock speed: 1002 MHz vs 900 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 28 nm
7x lower typical power consumption: 50 Watt vs 350 Watt
Around 27% higher memory clock speed: 7000 MHz vs 5500 MHz

Launch date	1 March 2017 vs 14 June 2012
Core clock speed	1002 MHz vs 900 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm vs 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	50 Watt vs 350 Watt
Memory clock speed	7000 MHz vs 5500 MHz

Reasons to consider the AMD FirePro W8000

Around 50% higher texture fill rate: 100.8 GTexel / s vs 67.39 GTexel / s
Around 75% higher pipelines: 1792 vs 1024
Around 50% better floating-point performance: 3,226 gflops vs 2,157 gflops
Around 24% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 528 vs 427
3x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 4164 vs 1409
Around 18% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 24518 vs 20842

Specifications (specs)
Texture fill rate	100.8 GTexel / s vs 67.39 GTexel / s
Pipelines	1792 vs 1024
Floating-point performance	3,226 gflops vs 2,157 gflops
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	528 vs 427
PassMark - G3D Mark	4164 vs 1409
Geekbench - OpenCL	24518 vs 20842

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon Pro WX 4170 Mobile
GPU 2: AMD FirePro W8000

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

427

528

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

1409

4164

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

20842

24518

Name	AMD Radeon Pro WX 4170 Mobile	AMD FirePro W8000
PassMark - G2D Mark	427	528
PassMark - G3D Mark	1409	4164
Geekbench - OpenCL	20842	24518
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		64.628
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		387.109
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		7400
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3717
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3357
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		7400
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3717
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3357

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon Pro WX 4170 Mobile	AMD FirePro W8000
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 4.0	GCN 1.0
Code name	Baffin	Tahiti
Launch date	1 March 2017	14 June 2012
Place in performance rating	440	437
Type	Workstation	Workstation
Launch price (MSRP)		$1,599
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1053 MHz
Core clock speed	1002 MHz	900 MHz
Floating-point performance	2,157 gflops	3,226 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	28 nm
Pipelines	1024	1792
Texture fill rate	67.39 GTexel / s	100.8 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	50 Watt	350 Watt
Transistor count	3,000 million	4,313 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	4x DisplayPort, 1x SDI
DisplayPort count		4
Dual-link DVI support
StereoOutput3D
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x8	PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus support		PCIe 3.0
Form factor		Full Height / Full Length
Length		279 mm
Supplementary power connectors		2x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	12.0 (12_0)	12.0 (11_1)
OpenGL	4.5	4.5
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	4 GB
Memory bandwidth	112.0 GB / s	176 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	7000 MHz	5500 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR5