Radeon Pro WX 4170 Mobile vs Quadro M3000 SE

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureMaxwell 2.0 (2014−2019)GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)
GPU code nameGM204Baffin
Market segmentWorkstationMobile workstation
Release date2 October 2016 (8 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 cores10241024
Core clock speed540 MHz1002 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1053 MHz
Number of transistors5,200 million3,000 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)75 Watt50 Watt
Texture fill rate34.5667.39
Floating-point processing power1.106 TFLOPS2.157 TFLOPS
ROPs3216
TMUs6464

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 3.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x8
WidthMXM Moduleno data
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno 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 amount4 GB4 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed1253 MHz1750 MHz
Memory bandwidth160.4 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 ConnectorsNo outputsNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_1)12 (12_0)
Shader Model6.46.4
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.22.0
Vulkan1.1.1261.2.131
CUDA5.2-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 2 October 2016 1 March 2017
Chip lithography 28 nm 14 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 75 Watt 50 Watt

Pro WX 4170 Mobile has an age advantage of 4 months, a 100% more advanced lithography process, and 50% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Quadro M3000 SE and Radeon Pro WX 4170 Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Quadro M3000 SE is a workstation card while Radeon Pro WX 4170 Mobile is a mobile workstation one.


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NVIDIA Quadro M3000 SE
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AMD Radeon Pro WX 4170 Mobile
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