NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850M vs AMD Radeon Pro WX 4170 Mobile

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850M AMD Radeon Pro WX 4170 Mobile

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 850M and 4GB VRAM Radeon Pro WX 4170 Mobile to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (45W vs 50W)

AMD Radeon Pro WX 4170 Mobile 's Advantages

Released 3 years late

Boost Clock1201MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.00GB/s vs 32.03GB/s)

384 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 850M

1.155 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro WX 4170 Mobile +112%

2.46 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 850M

VS

Radeon Pro WX 4170 Mobile

Graphics Card

Mar 2014

Release Date

Mar 2017

GeForce 800M

Generation

Radeon Pro Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1002 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1201 MHz

1001 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

4GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

32.03GB/s

Bandwidth

96.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

16

640

Shading Units

1024

40

TMUs

64

16

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

14.43 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

19.22 GPixel/s

36.08 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

76.86 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

2.460 TFLOPS

1155 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.460 TFLOPS

36.08 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

153.7 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM107

GPU Name

Baffin

N15P-GT-A1

GPU Variant

Baffin XT

Maxwell

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

28 nm

Process Size

14 nm

1.87 billion

Transistors

3 billion

148 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Board Design

45W

TDP

50W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

5.0

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.4

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