Product Compare

AMD Radeon Pro WX 4170 Mobile vs AMD Radeon HD 6850 X2

GPU GPU
Graphics Card
Release Date Mar 2017 Sep 2011
Generation Radeon Pro Mobile Northern Islands
Type Mobile Desktop
Bus Interface PCIe 3.0 x8 PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock 1002 MHz
Boost Clock 1201 MHz
Memory Clock 1500 MHz 1050 MHz
Memory
Memory Size 4GB 2GB
Memory Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Memory Bus 128bit 256bit
Bandwidth 96.00GB/s 134.4GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units 16 12
Shading Units 1024 960
TMUs 64 48
ROPs 16 32
L1 Cache 16 KB (per CU) 8 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache 1024 KB 512 KB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate 19.22 GPixel/s 25.60 GPixel/s
Texture Rate 76.86 GTexel/s 38.40 GTexel/s
FP16 (half) 2.460 TFLOPS
FP32 (float) 2.460 TFLOPS 1.536 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) 153.7 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name Baffin Barts
GPU Variant Baffin XT Barts PRO(215-0798006)
Architecture GCN 4.0 TeraScale 2
Foundry GlobalFoundries TSMC
Process Size 14 nm 40 nm
Transistors 3 billion 1.7 billion
Die Size 123 mm² 255 mm²
Board Design
TDP 50W 254W
Outputs No outputs 2x DVI1x HDMI 1.3a1x DisplayPort 1.1
Power Connectors None 2x 8-pin
Suggested PSU 600 W
Graphics Features
DirectX 12 (12_0) 11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL 4.6 4.4
OpenCL 2.1 1.2
Vulkan 1.2 N/A
Shader Model 6.4 5.0