Radeon Pro WX 4170 Mobile vs FireStream 9270

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking719not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency1.57no data
ArchitectureTeraScale (2005−2013)GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)
GPU code nameRV770Baffin
Market segmentWorkstationMobile workstation
Release date13 November 2008 (15 years ago)1 March 2017 (7 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores8001024
Core clock speed750 MHz1002 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1053 MHz
Number of transistors956 million3,000 million
Manufacturing process technology55 nm14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)160 Watt50 Watt
Texture fill rate30.0067.39
Floating-point processing power1.2 TFLOPS2.157 TFLOPS
ROPs1616
TMUs4064

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x8
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors2x 6-pinno data

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR5GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount2 GB4 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed900 MHz1750 MHz
Memory bandwidth115.2 GB/s112.0 GB/s

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors1x DVINo outputs

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX10.1 (10_1)12 (12_0)
Shader Model4.16.4
OpenGL3.34.6
OpenCL1.12.0
VulkanN/A1.2.131

Pros & cons summary


Recency 13 November 2008 1 March 2017
Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 4 GB
Chip lithography 55 nm 14 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 160 Watt 50 Watt

Pro WX 4170 Mobile has an age advantage of 8 years, a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 292.9% more advanced lithography process, and 220% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between FireStream 9270 and Radeon Pro WX 4170 Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that FireStream 9270 is a workstation card while Radeon Pro WX 4170 Mobile is a mobile workstation one.


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