Radeon RX 5600M vs Pro WX 4170 Mobile

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated244
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data10.59
ArchitectureGCN 4.0 (2016−2020)RDNA 1.0 (2019−2020)
GPU code nameBaffinNavi 10
Market segmentMobile workstationLaptop
Release date1 March 2017 (7 years ago)7 July 2020 (4 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 cores10242304
Core clock speed1002 MHz1035 MHz
Boost clock speed1053 MHz1265 MHz
Number of transistors3,000 million10,300 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)50 Watt150 Watt
Texture fill rate67.39182.2
Floating-point processing power2.157 TFLOPS5.829 TFLOPS
ROPs1664
TMUs64144

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).

Laptop sizeno datamedium sized
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x8PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

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 typeGDDR5GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount4 GB6 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit192 Bit
Memory clock speed1750 MHz1500 MHz
Memory bandwidth112.0 GB/s288.0 GB/s
Shared memory--

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_0)12 (12_1)
Shader Model6.46.5
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.02.0
Vulkan1.2.1311.2

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 March 2017 7 July 2020
Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 6 GB
Chip lithography 14 nm 7 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 50 Watt 150 Watt

Pro WX 4170 Mobile has 200% lower power consumption.

RX 5600M, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 3 years, a 50% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 100% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon Pro WX 4170 Mobile and Radeon RX 5600M. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon Pro WX 4170 Mobile is a mobile workstation card while Radeon RX 5600M is a mobile workstation one.


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AMD Radeon Pro WX 4170 Mobile
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