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.

 

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 432 431
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