AMD Radeon Pro WX 4170 Mobile vs NVIDIA Quadro M5000

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon Pro WX 4170 Mobile and NVIDIA Quadro M5000 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) 8 month(s) later
  • Around 16% higher core clock speed: 1002 MHz vs 861 MHz
  • Around 1% higher boost clock speed: 1053 MHz vs 1038 MHz
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 28 nm
  • 3x lower typical power consumption: 50 Watt vs 150 Watt
  • Around 6% higher memory clock speed: 7000 MHz vs 6612 MHz
Launch date 1 March 2017 vs 29 June 2015
Core clock speed 1002 MHz vs 861 MHz
Boost clock speed 1053 MHz vs 1038 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm vs 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 50 Watt vs 150 Watt
Memory clock speed 7000 MHz vs 6612 MHz

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro M5000

  • Around 97% higher texture fill rate: 132.9 GTexel / s vs 67.39 GTexel / s
  • 2x more pipelines: 2048 vs 1024
  • Around 97% better floating-point performance: 4,252 gflops vs 2,157 gflops
  • 2x more maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 4 GB
  • Around 54% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 658 vs 427
  • 6.7x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 9387 vs 1409
  • Around 35% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 28201 vs 20842
Specifications (specs)
Texture fill rate 132.9 GTexel / s vs 67.39 GTexel / s
Pipelines 2048 vs 1024
Floating-point performance 4,252 gflops vs 2,157 gflops
Maximum memory size 8 GB vs 4 GB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 658 vs 427
PassMark - G3D Mark 9387 vs 1409
Geekbench - OpenCL 28201 vs 20842

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon Pro WX 4170 Mobile
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro M5000

PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
427
658
PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
1409
9387
Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
20842
28201
Name AMD Radeon Pro WX 4170 Mobile NVIDIA Quadro M5000
PassMark - G2D Mark 427 658
PassMark - G3D Mark 1409 9387
Geekbench - OpenCL 20842 28201
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 99.169
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 1183.119
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 7.899
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 53.364
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 498.551
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 12524
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3677
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3324
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 12524
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3677
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3324

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon Pro WX 4170 Mobile NVIDIA Quadro M5000

Essentials

Architecture GCN 4.0 Maxwell 2.0
Code name Baffin GM204
Launch date 1 March 2017 29 June 2015
Place in performance rating 432 341
Type Workstation Workstation
Launch price (MSRP) $2,856.99
Price now $1,498
Value for money (0-100) 7.47

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1053 MHz 1038 MHz
Core clock speed 1002 MHz 861 MHz
Floating-point performance 2,157 gflops 4,252 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm 28 nm
Pipelines 1024 2048
Texture fill rate 67.39 GTexel / s 132.9 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 50 Watt 150 Watt
Transistor count 3,000 million 5,200 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs DVI-I DP DP DP DP 3-pin Stereo, 1x DVI, 4x DisplayPort
Multi-display synchronization Quadro Sync
Number of simultaneous displays 4

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x8 PCIe 3.0 x16
Length 267 mm
SLI options 1
Supplementary power connectors 1 x 6-pin
Width 2" (5.1 cm)

API support

DirectX 12.0 (12_0) 12
OpenGL 4.5 4.5
Shader Model 5
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 8 GB
Memory bandwidth 112.0 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 Bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 7000 MHz 6612 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 256 Bit

Technologies

3D Vision Pro
ECC (Error Correcting Code)
High-Performance Video I/O6
Mosaic
nView Desktop Management