AMD Radeon HD 8950M vs AMD Radeon Pro WX 4170 Mobile

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AMD Radeon HD 8950M

AMD Radeon Pro WX 4170 Mobile

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8950M and 4GB VRAM Radeon Pro WX 4170 Mobile to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon Pro WX 4170 Mobile 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1201MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.00GB/s vs 88.00GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (50W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8950M

1.651 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro WX 4170 Mobile +49%

2.46 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8950M

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Radeon Pro WX 4170 Mobile

Graphics Card

May 2013

Release Date

Mar 2017

Solar System

Generation

Radeon Pro Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1002 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1201 MHz

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

88.00GB/s

Bandwidth

96.00GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

16

-

768

Shading Units

1024

48

TMUs

64

16

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

17.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

19.22 GPixel/s

51.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

76.86 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

2.460 TFLOPS

1.651 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.460 TFLOPS

103.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

153.7 GFLOPS

Board Design

100W

TDP

50W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Saturn

GPU Name

Baffin

Saturn XT

GPU Variant

Baffin XT

GCN 2.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

28 nm

Process Size

14 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

3 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

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6.3

Shader Model

6.4

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