FirePro W5170M vs W4300

Place in performance ranking	495	563
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Value for money	4.55	0.21
Architecture	GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)	GCN (2011−2017)
GPU code name	Bonaire	Tropo
Market segment	Workstation	Mobile workstation
Release date	1 December 2015 (8 years old)	2 October 2015 (8 years old)
Current price	$129	$1530

Value for money

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

FirePro W4300 has 2067% better value for money than W5170M.

Technical specs

General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	768	640
Core clock speed	930 MHz	no data
Boost clock speed	no data	925 MHz
Number of transistors	2,080 million	1,500 million
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	50 Watt	no data
Texture fill rate	44.64	37.00
Floating-point performance	1,428 gflops	1,184 gflops

Size and compatibility

Information on FirePro W4300 and FirePro W5170M compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop video cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility). For notebook video cards it's notebook size, connection slot and bus, if the video card is inserted into a slot instead of being soldered to the notebook motherboard.

Laptop size	no data	large
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	MXM-A (3.0)
Length	171 mm	no data
Width	1-slot	no data
Supplementary power connectors	None	None

Memory

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 type	GDDR5	GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	2 GB
Memory bus width	128 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	6000 MHz	4500 MHz
Memory bandwidth	96 GB/s	72 GB/s
Shared memory	no data	-

Video outputs and ports

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 Connectors	4x mini-DisplayPort	No outputs
Eyefinity	no data	+

Technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

AppAcceleration

no data

API support

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

DirectX	12 (12_0)	12 (11_1)
Shader Model	6.3	5.1
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
OpenCL	2.0	1.2
Vulkan	1.2.131	1.2.131

Synthetic benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmark performance comparison. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.

Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark performance score. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

FirePro W4300 7.47
+32%

W5170M 5.66

W4300 outperforms W5170M by 32% based on our aggregated benchmark results.

Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark, part of Passmark PerformanceTest suite. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.

Benchmark coverage: 25%

FirePro W4300 2894
+32.1%

W5170M 2191

W4300 outperforms W5170M by 32% in Passmark.