AMD Radeon Pro WX 4170 Mobile vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 370 LP

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon Pro WX 4170 Mobile and NVIDIA Quadro FX 370 LP 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 8 year(s) 3 month(s) later
  • Around 86% higher core clock speed: 1002 MHz vs 540 MHz
  • 15.6x more texture fill rate: 67.39 GTexel / s vs 4.32 GTexel / s
  • 128x more pipelines: 1024 vs 8
  • 124.8x better floating-point performance: 2,157 gflops vs 17.28 gflops
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 65 nm
  • 16x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 256 MB
  • 7x more memory clock speed: 7000 MHz vs 1000 MHz
  • 13x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1409 vs 108
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 1 March 2017 vs 6 November 2008
Core clock speed 1002 MHz vs 540 MHz
Texture fill rate 67.39 GTexel / s vs 4.32 GTexel / s
Pipelines 1024 vs 8
Floating-point performance 2,157 gflops vs 17.28 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm vs 65 nm
Maximum memory size 4 GB vs 256 MB
Memory clock speed 7000 MHz vs 1000 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 1409 vs 108

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro FX 370 LP

  • 2x lower typical power consumption: 25 Watt vs 50 Watt
  • Around 13% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 481 vs 427
Specifications (specs)
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 25 Watt vs 50 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 481 vs 427

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon Pro WX 4170 Mobile
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro FX 370 LP

PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
427
481
PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
1409
108
Name AMD Radeon Pro WX 4170 Mobile NVIDIA Quadro FX 370 LP
PassMark - G2D Mark 427 481
PassMark - G3D Mark 1409 108
Geekbench - OpenCL 20842

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon Pro WX 4170 Mobile NVIDIA Quadro FX 370 LP

Essentials

Architecture GCN 4.0 Tesla
Code name Baffin G98
Launch date 1 March 2017 6 November 2008
Place in performance rating 432 316
Type Workstation Workstation
Launch price (MSRP) $129

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1053 MHz
Core clock speed 1002 MHz 540 MHz
Floating-point performance 2,157 gflops 17.28 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm 65 nm
Pipelines 1024 8
Texture fill rate 67.39 GTexel / s 4.32 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 50 Watt 25 Watt
Transistor count 3,000 million 210 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs 1x DMS-59

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x8 PCIe 1.0 x16
Length 198 mm
Supplementary power connectors None

API support

DirectX 12.0 (12_0) 10.0
OpenGL 4.5 3.3

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 256 MB
Memory bandwidth 112.0 GB / s 8 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 Bit 64 Bit
Memory clock speed 7000 MHz 1000 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 DDR2