Radeon Pro WX 4170 Mobile vs GeForce G210M

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureTesla 2.0 (2007−2013)GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)
GPU code nameGT218Baffin
Market segmentLaptopMobile workstation
Release date15 June 2009 (15 years ago)1 March 2017 (7 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 cores161024
Core clock speed625 MHz1002 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1053 MHz
Number of transistors260 million3,000 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)14 Watt50 Watt
Texture fill rate5.00067.39
Floating-point processing power0.048 TFLOPS2.157 TFLOPS
Gigaflops72no data
ROPs416
TMUs864

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).

Bus supportPCI-E 2.0no data
InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 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 typeGDDR3GDDR5
Maximum RAM amountUp to 1 GB4 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speedUp to 500 (DDR2), Up to 800 (DDR3), Up to 800 (GDDR3) MHz1750 MHz
Memory bandwidth12.8 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 ConnectorsDual Link DVIDisplayPortHDMISingle Link DVIVGANo outputs
Multi monitor support+no data
HDMI+-
Maximum VGA resolution2048x1536no data

Supported technologies

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

Power management8.0no data

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX11.1 (10_1)12 (12_0)
Shader Model4.16.4
OpenGL2.14.6
OpenCL1.12.0
VulkanN/A1.2.131
CUDA+-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 15 June 2009 1 March 2017
Chip lithography 40 nm 14 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 14 Watt 50 Watt

GeForce G210M has 257.1% lower power consumption.

Pro WX 4170 Mobile, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 7 years, and a 185.7% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between GeForce G210M and Radeon Pro WX 4170 Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce G210M is a notebook graphics card while Radeon Pro WX 4170 Mobile is a mobile workstation one.


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NVIDIA GeForce G210M
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