AMD Radeon Pro WX 4170 Mobile vs AMD Radeon R9 270X

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon Pro WX 4170 Mobile and AMD Radeon R9 270X 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: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/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), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

AMD Radeon Pro WX 4170 Mobile

AMD Radeon R9 270X

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Pro WX 4170 Mobile

Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 4 month(s) later
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 28 nm
3.6x lower typical power consumption: 50 Watt vs 180 Watt
2x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 2 GB

Launch date	1 March 2017 vs 8 October 2013
Boost clock speed	1053 MHz vs 1050 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm vs 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	50 Watt vs 180 Watt
Maximum memory size	4 GB vs 2 GB

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 270X

Around 25% higher texture fill rate: 84 GTexel / s vs 67.39 GTexel / s
Around 25% higher pipelines: 1280 vs 1024
Around 25% better floating-point performance: 2,688 gflops vs 2,157 gflops
Around 61% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 612 vs 380
Around 78% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 4874 vs 2732

Specifications (specs)
Texture fill rate	84 GTexel / s vs 67.39 GTexel / s
Pipelines	1280 vs 1024
Floating-point performance	2,688 gflops vs 2,157 gflops
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	612 vs 380
PassMark - G3D Mark	4874 vs 2732

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon Pro WX 4170 Mobile
GPU 2: AMD Radeon R9 270X

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

380

612

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

2732

4874

Name	AMD Radeon Pro WX 4170 Mobile	AMD Radeon R9 270X
PassMark - G2D Mark	380	612
PassMark - G3D Mark	2732	4874
Geekbench - OpenCL	20842
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		63.87
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		1314.72
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		6.354
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		85.21
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		315.412
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		8068
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3706
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3350
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		8068
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3706
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3350
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		1772

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon Pro WX 4170 Mobile	AMD Radeon R9 270X
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 4.0	GCN 1.0
Code name	Baffin	Curacao
Launch date	1 March 2017	8 October 2013
Place in performance rating	445	442
Type	Workstation	Desktop
Design		AMD Radeon R9 200 Series
Launch price (MSRP)		$199
Price now		$399
Value for money (0-100)		16.05
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1053 MHz	1050 MHz
Core clock speed	1002 MHz
Floating-point performance	2,157 gflops	2,688 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	28 nm
Pipelines	1024	1280
Texture fill rate	67.39 GTexel / s	84 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	50 Watt	180 Watt
Transistor count	3,000 million	2,800 million
Stream Processors		1280
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
Eyefinity
HDMI
VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x8	PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus support		PCIe 3.0
Supplementary power connectors		2 x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	12.0 (12_0)	12
OpenGL	4.5	4.5
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	2 GB
Memory bandwidth	112.0 GB / s	179.2 GB/s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	7000 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR5
Shared memory		0
Technologies
AMD Eyefinity
AppAcceleration
CrossFire
DDMA audio
FreeSync
HD3D
LiquidVR
TressFX
TrueAudio
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)