FirePro M4170: specs and benchmarks

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Aggregate performance score

FirePro M4170 provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at 3.06% of a leader's which is GeForce RTX 4090.

Summary

AMD started FirePro M4170 sales 23 April 2015. This is a GCN 1.0 architecture notebook card based on 28 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at designers. 1 GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 1 GHz are supplied, and together with 128 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 64 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is a graphics card attached via PCIe 3.0 x8 interface.

Primary details

Some basic facts about FirePro M4170: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in the ranking762
Place by popularitynot in top-100
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2011−2020)
GPU code nameOpal
Market segmentMobile workstation
Release date23 April 2015 (9 years ago)

Detailed specifications

FirePro M4170's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of FirePro M4170's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines / CUDA cores384of 21760 (GeForce RTX 5090)
Core clock speed825 MHzof 2610 MHz (Radeon RX 6500 XT)
Boost clock speed900 MHzof 3599 MHz (Radeon RX 7990 XTX)
Number of transistors950 millionof 208,000 million (B200 SXM 192 GB)
Manufacturing process technology28 nmof 3 nm (Arc Graphics 140V)
Texture fill rate21.60of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Floating-point processing power0.6912 TFLOPSof 109.7 (GeForce RTX 5090)
ROPs8of 192 (Radeon RX 7900 XTX)
TMUs24of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)

Form factor & compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of FirePro M4170 and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 3.0 x8
Supplementary power connectorsNone

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of memory installed on FirePro M4170: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.

Memory typeGDDR5
Maximum RAM amount1 GBof 294912 (Radeon Instinct MI325X)
Memory bus width128 Bitof 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speed1000 MHzof 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile)
Memory bandwidth64 GB/sof 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X)

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on FirePro M4170. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.

Display ConnectorsPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

APIs supported by FirePro M4170, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX12 (11_1)
Shader Model6.5 (5.1)
OpenGL4.6
OpenCL2.1 (1.2)
Vulkan1.2.170

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of FirePro M4170. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.


Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark score. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

FirePro M4170 3.06

Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.

FirePro M4170 1181

GeekBench 5 OpenCL

Geekbench 5 is a widespread graphics card benchmark combined from 11 different test scenarios. All these scenarios rely on direct usage of GPU's processing power, no 3D rendering is involved. This variation uses OpenCL API by Khronos Group.

FirePro M4170 6347

Gaming performance

Let's see how good FirePro M4170 is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in frames per second. Comparisons with game system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect reality inaccurately.

Closest competitors

FirePro M4170's performance relative to its closest rivals among mobile workstation graphics cards.


Quadro K2100M 115.03
FirePro M5950 111.44
Quadro 4000M 110.13
FirePro M4170 100
Quadro K620M 98.69
Quadro M500M 98.37

NVIDIA equivalent

According to our data, the closest NVIDIA alternative to FirePro M4170 is Quadro K620M, which is slower by 1% and lower by 7 positions in our ranking.

Here are some closest NVIDIA rivals to FirePro M4170:

Quadro P500 138.24
Quadro K2100M 115.03
Quadro 4000M 110.13
FirePro M4170 100
Quadro K620M 98.69
Quadro M500M 98.37

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Community ratings

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