AMD Radeon HD 8970M vs AMD Radeon Pro WX 4170 Mobile

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AMD Radeon HD 8970M

AMD Radeon Pro WX 4170 Mobile

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon HD 8970M 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 HD 8970M 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon Pro WX 4170 Mobile 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 33% (1201MHz vs 900MHz)

Lower TDP (50W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8970M

2.304 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro WX 4170 Mobile +6%

2.46 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8970M

VS

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

850 MHz

Base Clock

1002 MHz

900 MHz

Boost Clock

1201 MHz

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

96.00GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

16

-

1280

Shading Units

1024

80

TMUs

64

32

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

28.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

19.22 GPixel/s

72.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

76.86 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

2.460 TFLOPS

2.304 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.460 TFLOPS

144.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

153.7 GFLOPS

Board Design

100W

TDP

50W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Neptune

GPU Name

Baffin

Neptune XT (216-0847000)

GPU Variant

Baffin XT

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

28 nm

Process Size

14 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

3 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.1

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.4

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