AMD Radeon RX 460 (Laptop) vs AMD FirePro W5170M

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 460 (Laptop) and AMD FirePro W5170M 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: Geekbench - OpenCL, 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, 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), PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

AMD Radeon RX 460 (Laptop)

AMD FirePro W5170M

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 460 (Laptop)

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 11 month(s) later
Around 21% higher core clock speed: 1090 MHz vs 900 MHz
Around 30% higher boost clock speed: 1200 MHz vs 925 MHz
Around 79% higher texture fill rate: 66.08 GTexel / s vs 37 GTexel / s
Around 40% higher pipelines: 896 vs 640
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 28 nm
Around 56% higher memory clock speed: 7000 MHz vs 4500 MHz
7.9x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 65217 vs 8303

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	8 August 2016 vs 25 August 2014
Core clock speed	1090 MHz vs 900 MHz
Boost clock speed	1200 MHz vs 925 MHz
Texture fill rate	66.08 GTexel / s vs 37 GTexel / s
Pipelines	896 vs 640
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm vs 28 nm
Memory clock speed	7000 MHz vs 4500 MHz
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL	65217 vs 8303

Reasons to consider the AMD FirePro W5170M

538.2x better floating-point performance: 1,184 gflops vs 2.2 TFLOPs

Floating-point performance	1,184 gflops vs 2.2 TFLOPs

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 460 (Laptop)
GPU 2: AMD FirePro W5170M

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

65217

8303

Name	AMD Radeon RX 460 (Laptop)	AMD FirePro W5170M
Geekbench - OpenCL	65217	8303
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	1730
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	55
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	970.421
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	4.656
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	76.881
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	237.944
PassMark - G3D Mark		1819
PassMark - G2D Mark		355
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		3409
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		3409
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3189
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3189
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3355
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3355

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon RX 460 (Laptop)	AMD FirePro W5170M
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 4.0	GCN 1.0
Code name	Baffin	Tropo
Design	Radeon RX 400 Series
GCN generation	4th Gen
Launch date	8 August 2016	25 August 2014
Launch price (MSRP)	$86
Place in performance rating	692	695
Price now	$179.50
Type	Desktop	Mobile workstation
Value for money (0-100)	26.72
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1200 MHz	925 MHz
Compute units	14
Core clock speed	1090 MHz	900 MHz
Floating-point performance	2.2 TFLOPs	1,184 gflops
GPU Power	35-48 Watt
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	28 nm
Pipelines	896	640
Stream Processors	896
Texture fill rate	66.08 GTexel / s	37 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	70 Watt
Transistor count	3,000 million	1,500 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Bridgeless CrossFire
Interface	MXM-B (3.0)	MXM-A (3.0)
Laptop size	large	large
Recommended system power (PSU)	400 Watt
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	12	12.0 (11_1)
OpenCL	2.0
OpenGL	4.5	4.5
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	2 GB
Memory bandwidth	112 GB/s	72 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	7000 MHz	4500 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR5
Shared memory	0	0
Technologies
4K H264 Decode
4K H264 Encode
AMD Eyefinity
AMD Radeon™ Chill
AMD Radeon™ ReLive
DisplayPort 1.3 HBR / 1.4 HDR Ready
FreeSync
H265/HEVC Decode
H265/HEVC Encode
HDMI 2.0
HDMI 4K Support
PowerTune
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)
Video Code Engine (VCE)
Virtual Super Resolution (VSR)
ZeroCore
AppAcceleration
Enduro