Radeon Pro WX 4170 Mobile vs RX 580 Mobile

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking288not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation23.48no data
Power efficiency13.33no data
ArchitectureGCN 4.0 (2016−2020)GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)
GPU code namePolaris 20Baffin
Market segmentLaptopMobile workstation
Release date18 April 2017 (7 years ago)1 March 2017 (7 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$301.69 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 cores23041024
Core clock speed1000 MHz1002 MHz
Boost clock speed1077 MHz1053 MHz
Number of transistors5,700 million3,000 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)100 Watt50 Watt
Texture fill rate155.167.39
Floating-point processing power4.963 TFLOPS2.157 TFLOPS
ROPs3216
TMUs14464

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 sizelargeno data
InterfaceMXM-B (3.0)PCIe 3.0 x8

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 amount8 GB4 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed2000 MHz1750 MHz
Memory bandwidth256.0 GB/s112.0 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_0)
Shader Model6.46.4
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.02.0
Vulkan1.2.1311.2.131

Pros & cons summary


Recency 18 April 2017 1 March 2017
Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 4 GB
Power consumption (TDP) 100 Watt 50 Watt

RX 580 Mobile has an age advantage of 1 month, and a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount.

Pro WX 4170 Mobile, on the other hand, has 100% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX 580 Mobile and Radeon Pro WX 4170 Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon RX 580 Mobile is a notebook graphics card while Radeon Pro WX 4170 Mobile is a mobile workstation one.


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AMD Radeon RX 580 Mobile
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