AMD Radeon Pro WX 4170 Mobile vs AMD Radeon R9 285

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon Pro WX 4170 Mobile and AMD Radeon R9 285 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 285

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Pro WX 4170 Mobile

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 5 month(s) later
Around 9% higher core clock speed: 1002 MHz vs 918 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 28 nm
3.8x lower typical power consumption: 50 Watt vs 190 Watt
2x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 2 GB
Around 27% higher memory clock speed: 7000 MHz vs 5500 MHz

Launch date	1 March 2017 vs 2 September 2014
Core clock speed	1002 MHz vs 918 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm vs 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	50 Watt vs 190 Watt
Maximum memory size	4 GB vs 2 GB
Memory clock speed	7000 MHz vs 5500 MHz

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 285

Around 53% higher texture fill rate: 102.8 GTexel / s vs 67.39 GTexel / s
Around 75% higher pipelines: 1792 vs 1024
Around 53% better floating-point performance: 3,290 gflops vs 2,157 gflops
Around 40% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 597 vs 427
4.7x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 6680 vs 1409

Specifications (specs)
Texture fill rate	102.8 GTexel / s vs 67.39 GTexel / s
Pipelines	1792 vs 1024
Floating-point performance	3,290 gflops vs 2,157 gflops
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	597 vs 427
PassMark - G3D Mark	6680 vs 1409

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon Pro WX 4170 Mobile
GPU 2: AMD Radeon R9 285

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

427

597

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

1409

6680

Name	AMD Radeon Pro WX 4170 Mobile	AMD Radeon R9 285
PassMark - G2D Mark	427	597
PassMark - G3D Mark	1409	6680
Geekbench - OpenCL	20842
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		72.799
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		1474.632
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		6.369
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		91.954
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		391.399
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		6474
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3043
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		2782
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		6474
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3043
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		2782
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		2778

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon Pro WX 4170 Mobile	AMD Radeon R9 285
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 4.0	GCN 3.0
Code name	Baffin	Tonga
Launch date	1 March 2017	2 September 2014
Place in performance rating	444	445
Type	Workstation	Desktop
Design		AMD Radeon R9 200 Series
Launch price (MSRP)		$249
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1053 MHz
Core clock speed	1002 MHz	918 MHz
Floating-point performance	2,157 gflops	3,290 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	28 nm
Pipelines	1024	1792
Texture fill rate	67.39 GTexel / s	102.8 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	50 Watt	190 Watt
Transistor count	3,000 million	5,000 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x8	PCIe 3.0 x16
Length		221 mm
Supplementary power connectors		2x 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	176.0 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	7000 MHz	5500 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR5
Technologies
HD3D
LiquidVR
TressFX
TrueAudio
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)