AMD Radeon Pro WX 4170 Mobile vs ATI Radeon X1900 CrossFire Edition

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon Pro WX 4170 Mobile and ATI Radeon X1900 CrossFire Edition videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Pro WX 4170 Mobile

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 11 year(s) 1 month(s) later
  • Around 60% higher core clock speed: 1002 MHz vs 625 MHz
  • 6.7x more texture fill rate: 67.39 GTexel / s vs 10 GTexel / s
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 90 nm
  • 2x lower typical power consumption: 50 Watt vs 100 Watt
  • 8x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 512 MB
  • 4.8x more memory clock speed: 7000 MHz vs 1450 MHz
  • 10.3x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1409 vs 137
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 1 March 2017 vs 24 January 2006
Core clock speed 1002 MHz vs 625 MHz
Texture fill rate 67.39 GTexel / s vs 10 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm vs 90 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 50 Watt vs 100 Watt
Maximum memory size 4 GB vs 512 MB
Memory clock speed 7000 MHz vs 1450 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 1409 vs 137

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon X1900 CrossFire Edition

  • Around 19% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 507 vs 427
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 507 vs 427

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon Pro WX 4170 Mobile
GPU 2: ATI Radeon X1900 CrossFire Edition

PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
427
507
PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
1409
137
Name AMD Radeon Pro WX 4170 Mobile ATI Radeon X1900 CrossFire Edition
PassMark - G2D Mark 427 507
PassMark - G3D Mark 1409 137
Geekbench - OpenCL 20842

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon Pro WX 4170 Mobile ATI Radeon X1900 CrossFire Edition

Essentials

Architecture GCN 4.0 R500
Code name Baffin R580
Launch date 1 March 2017 24 January 2006
Place in performance rating 432 294
Type Workstation Desktop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1053 MHz
Core clock speed 1002 MHz 625 MHz
Floating-point performance 2,157 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm 90 nm
Pipelines 1024
Texture fill rate 67.39 GTexel / s 10 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 50 Watt 100 Watt
Transistor count 3,000 million 384 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs 2x DVI, 1x S-Video

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x8 PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors 1x 6-pin

API support

DirectX 12.0 (12_0) 9.0c
OpenGL 4.5 2.0

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 512 MB
Memory bandwidth 112.0 GB / s 46.4 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 Bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 7000 MHz 1450 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR3