AMD FirePro W4170M vs AMD Radeon 550X Mobile

VS

AMD FirePro W4170M

AMD Radeon 550X Mobile

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM FirePro W4170M and 4GB VRAM Radeon 550X Mobile to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro W4170M 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (64.00GB/s vs 48.00GB/s)

AMD Radeon 550X Mobile 's Advantages

Released 3 years late

Boost Clock has increased by 43% (1287MHz vs 900MHz)

More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)

256 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro W4170M

0.691 TFLOPS

Radeon 550X Mobile +138%

1.647 TFLOPS

FirePro W4170M

VS

Radeon 550X Mobile

Graphics Card

Apr 2015

Release Date

Apr 2018

FirePro Mobile

Generation

Mobility Radeon

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

825 MHz

Base Clock

1100 MHz

900 MHz

Boost Clock

1287 MHz

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

64.00GB/s

Bandwidth

48.00GB/s

Render Config

6

Compute Units

10

-

384

Shading Units

640

24

TMUs

40

8

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

7.200 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

20.59 GPixel/s

21.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

51.48 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

1.647 TFLOPS

691.2 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.647 TFLOPS

43.20 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

103.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

50W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Opal

GPU Name

Polaris 23

-

GPU Variant

Polaris 23 MXT

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

28 nm

Process Size

14 nm

0.95 billion

Transistors

2.2 billion

77 mm²

Die Size

103 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1 (1.2)

OpenCL

2.1

1.2.170

Vulkan

1.2

-

6.5 (5.1)

Shader Model

6.4

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