AMD Radeon Pro WX 4170 Mobile vs AMD Radeon R9 M395X

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon Pro WX 4170 Mobile and AMD Radeon R9 M395X 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).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Pro WX 4170 Mobile

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 9 month(s) later
  • Around 39% higher core clock speed: 1002 MHz vs 723 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
  • 5.6x more memory clock speed: 7000 MHz vs 1250 MHz
Launch date 1 March 2017 vs 5 May 2015
Core clock speed 1002 MHz vs 723 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm vs 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 50 Watt vs 250 Watt
Memory clock speed 7000 MHz vs 1250 MHz

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 M395X

  • Around 37% higher texture fill rate: 92.54 GTexel / s vs 67.39 GTexel / s
  • 2x more pipelines: 2048 vs 1024
  • Around 37% better floating-point performance: 2,961 gflops vs 2,157 gflops
  • Around 93% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 733 vs 380
  • Around 90% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 5195 vs 2732
  • Around 33% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 27734 vs 20842
Specifications (specs)
Texture fill rate 92.54 GTexel / s vs 67.39 GTexel / s
Pipelines 2048 vs 1024
Floating-point performance 2,961 gflops vs 2,157 gflops
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 733 vs 380
PassMark - G3D Mark 5195 vs 2732
Geekbench - OpenCL 27734 vs 20842

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon Pro WX 4170 Mobile
GPU 2: AMD Radeon R9 M395X

PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
380
733
PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
2732
5195
Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
20842
27734
Name AMD Radeon Pro WX 4170 Mobile AMD Radeon R9 M395X
PassMark - G2D Mark 380 733
PassMark - G3D Mark 2732 5195
Geekbench - OpenCL 20842 27734
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 65.367
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 799.421
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 5.718
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 71.057
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 413.329
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 7365
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 2154
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3354
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 7365
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 2154
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3354

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon Pro WX 4170 Mobile AMD Radeon R9 M395X

Essentials

Architecture GCN 4.0 GCN 3.0
Code name Baffin Amethyst
Launch date 1 March 2017 5 May 2015
Place in performance rating 458 461
Type Workstation Desktop
Design AMD Radeon R9 300 Series

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1053 MHz
Core clock speed 1002 MHz 723 MHz
Floating-point performance 2,157 gflops 2,961 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm 28 nm
Pipelines 1024 2048
Texture fill rate 67.39 GTexel / s 92.54 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 50 Watt 250 Watt
Transistor count 3,000 million 5,000 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs No outputs
Eyefinity

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x8 MXM-B (3.0)
Bus support PCIe 3.0
Laptop size large
Supplementary power connectors None

API support

DirectX 12.0 (12_0) 12
OpenGL 4.5 4.4
Mantle
OpenCL Not Listed

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 4 GB
Memory bandwidth 112.0 GB / s 160.0 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 Bit 256 bit
Memory clock speed 7000 MHz 1250 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR5
Shared memory 0

Technologies

AMD Eyefinity
DualGraphics
FreeSync
HD3D
PowerTune
Switchable graphics
TrueAudio
ZeroCore