AMD Radeon Pro WX 4170 Mobile vs AMD Radeon R9 380X

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon Pro WX 4170 Mobile and AMD Radeon R9 380X 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, 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), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Pro WX 4170 Mobile

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 3 month(s) later
  • Around 9% higher boost clock speed: 1053 MHz vs 970 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
  • 7.2x more memory clock speed: 7000 MHz vs 970 MHz
Launch date 1 March 2017 vs 19 November 2015
Boost clock speed 1053 MHz vs 970 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm vs 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 50 Watt vs 190 Watt
Memory clock speed 7000 MHz vs 970 MHz

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 380X

  • Around 84% higher texture fill rate: 124.2 GTexel / s vs 67.39 GTexel / s
  • 2x more pipelines: 2048 vs 1024
  • Around 84% better floating-point performance: 3,973 gflops vs 2,157 gflops
  • Around 56% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 667 vs 427
  • 4.4x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 6229 vs 1409
Specifications (specs)
Texture fill rate 124.2 GTexel / s vs 67.39 GTexel / s
Pipelines 2048 vs 1024
Floating-point performance 3,973 gflops vs 2,157 gflops
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 667 vs 427
PassMark - G3D Mark 6229 vs 1409

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon Pro WX 4170 Mobile
GPU 2: AMD Radeon R9 380X

PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
427
667
PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
1409
6229
Name AMD Radeon Pro WX 4170 Mobile AMD Radeon R9 380X
PassMark - G2D Mark 427 667
PassMark - G3D Mark 1409 6229
Geekbench - OpenCL 20842
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 9685
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 9685
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3717
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3717
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3361
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3361
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 3053

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon Pro WX 4170 Mobile AMD Radeon R9 380X

Essentials

Architecture GCN 4.0 GCN 3.0
Code name Baffin Antigua
Launch date 1 March 2017 19 November 2015
Place in performance rating 432 314
Type Workstation Desktop
Design AMD Radeon R9 300 Series
Launch price (MSRP) $229
Price now $528.44
Value for money (0-100) 15.61

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1053 MHz 970 MHz
Core clock speed 1002 MHz
Floating-point performance 2,157 gflops 3,973 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm 28 nm
Pipelines 1024 2048
Texture fill rate 67.39 GTexel / s 124.2 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 50 Watt 190 Watt
Transistor count 3,000 million 5,000 million
Compute units 32
Stream Processors 2048

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs 2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
Eyefinity
HDMI
Number of Eyefinity displays 6
VGA

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x8 PCIe 3.0 x16
Bridgeless CrossFire
Bus support PCIe 3.0
Form factor Full Height / Full Length
Length 221 mm
Supplementary power connectors ​2 x 6-pin

API support

DirectX 12.0 (12_0) 12
OpenGL 4.5 4.5
Mantle
OpenCL 2.0
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 4 GB
Memory bandwidth 112.0 GB / s 182.4 GB/s
Memory bus width 128 Bit 64 bit
Memory clock speed 7000 MHz 970 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR5
High bandwidth memory (HBM)

Technologies

AMD Eyefinity
CrossFire
DDMA audio
FreeSync
FRTC
HD3D
HDMI 4K Support
LiquidVR
PowerTune
TrueAudio
Video Code Engine (VCE)
Virtual Super Resolution (VSR)
ZeroCore