AMD Radeon Pro WX 4170 Mobile vs AMD Radeon R9 M395 Mac Edition

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon Pro WX 4170 Mobile and AMD Radeon R9 M395 Mac Edition 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).

AMD Radeon Pro WX 4170 Mobile

AMD Radeon R9 M395 Mac Edition

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Pro WX 4170 Mobile

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 9 month(s) later
Around 20% higher core clock speed: 1002 MHz vs 834 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 28 nm
5x lower typical power consumption: 50 Watt vs 250 Watt
Around 28% higher memory clock speed: 7000 MHz vs 5460 MHz

Launch date	1 March 2017 vs 5 May 2015
Core clock speed	1002 MHz vs 834 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm vs 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	50 Watt vs 250 Watt
Memory clock speed	7000 MHz vs 5460 MHz

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 M395 Mac Edition

Around 39% higher texture fill rate: 93.41 GTexel / s vs 67.39 GTexel / s
Around 75% higher pipelines: 1792 vs 1024
Around 39% better floating-point performance: 2,989 gflops vs 2,157 gflops
Around 88% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 715 vs 380
Around 80% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 4916 vs 2732
Around 13% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 23551 vs 20842

Specifications (specs)
Texture fill rate	93.41 GTexel / s vs 67.39 GTexel / s
Pipelines	1792 vs 1024
Floating-point performance	2,989 gflops vs 2,157 gflops
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	715 vs 380
PassMark - G3D Mark	4916 vs 2732
Geekbench - OpenCL	23551 vs 20842

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon Pro WX 4170 Mobile
GPU 2: AMD Radeon R9 M395 Mac Edition

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

380

715

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

2732

4916

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

20842

23551

Name	AMD Radeon Pro WX 4170 Mobile	AMD Radeon R9 M395 Mac Edition
PassMark - G2D Mark	380	715
PassMark - G3D Mark	2732	4916
Geekbench - OpenCL	20842	23551
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		56.272
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		778.867
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		5.051
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		65.535
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		336.811

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon Pro WX 4170 Mobile	AMD Radeon R9 M395 Mac Edition
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 4.0	GCN 2.0
Code name	Baffin	Grenada
Launch date	1 March 2017	5 May 2015
Place in performance rating	458	448
Type	Workstation	Desktop
Design		AMD Radeon R9 300 Series
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1053 MHz
Core clock speed	1002 MHz	834 MHz
Floating-point performance	2,157 gflops	2,989 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	28 nm
Pipelines	1024	1792
Texture fill rate	67.39 GTexel / s	93.41 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	50 Watt	250 Watt
Transistor count	3,000 million	6,200 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x8	MXM-B (3.0)
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	12.0 (12_0)	12
OpenGL	4.5	4.4
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	4 GB
Memory bandwidth	112.0 GB / s	174.7 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	256 bit
Memory clock speed	7000 MHz	5460 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR5
Technologies
AMD Eyefinity
DualGraphics
PowerTune
Switchable graphics
TrueAudio
ZeroCore