AMD Radeon Pro WX 4170 Mobile vs NVIDIA Quadro M5000M

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon Pro WX 4170 Mobile and NVIDIA Quadro M5000M 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), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

AMD Radeon Pro WX 4170 Mobile

NVIDIA Quadro M5000M

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Pro WX 4170 Mobile

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 6 month(s) later
Around 3% higher core clock speed: 1002 MHz vs 975 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 28 nm
2x lower typical power consumption: 50 Watt vs 100 Watt
Around 40% higher memory clock speed: 7000 MHz vs 5012 MHz

Launch date	1 March 2017 vs 18 August 2015
Core clock speed	1002 MHz vs 975 MHz
Boost clock speed	1053 MHz vs 1051 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm vs 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	50 Watt vs 100 Watt
Memory clock speed	7000 MHz vs 5012 MHz

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro M5000M

Around 39% higher texture fill rate: 93.6 GTexel / s vs 67.39 GTexel / s
Around 50% higher pipelines: 1,536 vs 1024
Around 39% better floating-point performance: 2,995 gflops vs 2,157 gflops
2x more maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 4 GB
Around 24% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 471 vs 380
2.6x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 7012 vs 2732
Around 9% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 22785 vs 20842

Specifications (specs)
Texture fill rate	93.6 GTexel / s vs 67.39 GTexel / s
Pipelines	1,536 vs 1024
Floating-point performance	2,995 gflops vs 2,157 gflops
Maximum memory size	8 GB vs 4 GB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	471 vs 380
PassMark - G3D Mark	7012 vs 2732
Geekbench - OpenCL	22785 vs 20842

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon Pro WX 4170 Mobile
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro M5000M

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

380

471

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

2732

7012

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

20842

22785

Name	AMD Radeon Pro WX 4170 Mobile	NVIDIA Quadro M5000M
PassMark - G2D Mark	380	471
PassMark - G3D Mark	2732	7012
Geekbench - OpenCL	20842	22785
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		95.613
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		1341.18
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		6.869
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		83.683
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		366.321
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		9399
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3685
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3339
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		9399
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3685
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3339
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		0

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon Pro WX 4170 Mobile	NVIDIA Quadro M5000M
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 4.0	Maxwell 2.0
Code name	Baffin	GM204
Launch date	1 March 2017	18 August 2015
Place in performance rating	458	455
Type	Workstation	Mobile workstation
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1053 MHz	1051 MHz
Core clock speed	1002 MHz	975 MHz
Floating-point performance	2,157 gflops	2,995 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	28 nm
Pipelines	1024	1,536
Texture fill rate	67.39 GTexel / s	93.6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	50 Watt	100 Watt
Transistor count	3,000 million	5,200 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Display Port		1.2
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x8	PCIe 3.0 x16
Laptop size		large
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	12.0 (12_0)	12
OpenGL	4.5	4.5
Shader Model		5.0
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	8 GB
Memory bandwidth	112.0 GB / s	160 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	7000 MHz	5012 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR5
Shared memory		0
Technologies
3D Vision Pro
Mosaic
nView Display Management
Optimus