AMD Radeon Pro WX 4170 Mobile vs NVIDIA GeForce 9300 + nForce 730i

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon Pro WX 4170 Mobile and NVIDIA GeForce 9300 + nForce 730i 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.

AMD Radeon Pro WX 4170 Mobile

NVIDIA GeForce 9300 + nForce 730i

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Pro WX 4170 Mobile

Videocard is newer: launch date 9 year(s) 10 month(s) later
2.2x more core clock speed: 1002 MHz vs 450 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 90 nm
Around 16% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 427 vs 367
10.9x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1409 vs 129

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	1 March 2017 vs 17 April 2007
Core clock speed	1002 MHz vs 450 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm vs 90 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	427 vs 367
PassMark - G3D Mark	1409 vs 129

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 9300 + nForce 730i

Around 25% lower typical power consumption: 40 Watt vs 50 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	40 Watt vs 50 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon Pro WX 4170 Mobile
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 9300 + nForce 730i

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

427

367

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

1409

129

Name	AMD Radeon Pro WX 4170 Mobile	NVIDIA GeForce 9300 + nForce 730i
PassMark - G2D Mark	427	367
PassMark - G3D Mark	1409	129
Geekbench - OpenCL	20842

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon Pro WX 4170 Mobile	NVIDIA GeForce 9300 + nForce 730i
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 4.0	Tesla
Code name	Baffin	MCP79MX
Launch date	1 March 2017	17 April 2007
Place in performance rating	437	434
Type	Workstation	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1053 MHz
Core clock speed	1002 MHz	450 MHz
Floating-point performance	2,157 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	90 nm
Pipelines	1024
Texture fill rate	67.39 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	50 Watt	40 Watt
Transistor count	3,000 million	210 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x8	PCI
API support
DirectX	12.0 (12_0)	9.0c
OpenGL	4.5	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB
Memory bandwidth	112.0 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	7000 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5