AMD Radeon Pro WX 4170 Mobile vs AMD Radeon HD 8830M

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon Pro WX 4170 Mobile and AMD Radeon HD 8830M 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, GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

AMD Radeon Pro WX 4170 Mobile

AMD Radeon HD 8830M

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Pro WX 4170 Mobile

Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 10 month(s) later
Around 74% higher core clock speed: 1002 MHz vs 575 MHz
Around 83% higher boost clock speed: 1053 MHz vs 575 MHz
2.7x more texture fill rate: 67.39 GTexel / s vs 25 GTexel / s
Around 60% higher pipelines: 1024 vs 640
2.7x better floating-point performance: 2,157 gflops vs 800.0 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 28 nm
2x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 2 GB
3.5x more memory clock speed: 7000 MHz vs 2000 MHz

Launch date	1 March 2017 vs 1 April 2013
Core clock speed	1002 MHz vs 575 MHz
Boost clock speed	1053 MHz vs 575 MHz
Texture fill rate	67.39 GTexel / s vs 25 GTexel / s
Pipelines	1024 vs 640
Floating-point performance	2,157 gflops vs 800.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm vs 28 nm
Maximum memory size	4 GB vs 2 GB
Memory clock speed	7000 MHz vs 2000 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon Pro WX 4170 Mobile
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 8830M

Name	AMD Radeon Pro WX 4170 Mobile	AMD Radeon HD 8830M
PassMark - G2D Mark	427
PassMark - G3D Mark	1409
Geekbench - OpenCL	20842
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		2695
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		2695
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		5106
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		5106
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		11302
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		11302

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon Pro WX 4170 Mobile	AMD Radeon HD 8830M
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 4.0	GCN 1.0
Code name	Baffin	Venus
Launch date	1 March 2017	1 April 2013
Place in performance rating	432	434
Type	Workstation	Desktop
Design		AMD Radeon HD 8000M Series
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1053 MHz	575 MHz
Core clock speed	1002 MHz	575 MHz
Floating-point performance	2,157 gflops	800.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	28 nm
Pipelines	1024	640
Texture fill rate	67.39 GTexel / s	25 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	50 Watt
Transistor count	3,000 million	1,500 million
Compute units		10
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x8	PCIe 3.0 x16
Laptop size		medium sized
API support
DirectX	12.0 (12_0)	11
OpenGL	4.5	4.4
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	2 GB
Memory bandwidth	112.0 GB / s	32 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	7000 MHz	2000 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	DDR3
Shared memory		0