Radeon Vega 3 Embedded vs Pro WX 4170 Mobile

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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
ArchitectureGCN 4.0 (2016−2020)GCN 5.0 (2017−2020)
GPU code nameBaffinPicasso-M
Market segmentMobile workstationDesktop
Release date1 March 2017 (7 years ago)2019 (5 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 cores1024192
Core clock speed1002 MHz300 MHz
Boost clock speed1053 MHz1200 MHz
Number of transistors3,000 million4,940 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)50 Watt10 Watt
Texture fill rate67.3914.40
Floating-point processing power2.157 TFLOPS0.4608 TFLOPS
ROPs164
TMUs6412

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).

InterfacePCIe 3.0 x8IGP
Widthno dataIGP
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

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 typeGDDR5System Shared
Maximum RAM amount4 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width128 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed1750 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth112.0 GB/sno data

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 outputsMotherboard Dependent

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_0)12 (12_1)
Shader Model6.46.7
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.02.1
Vulkan1.2.1311.3

Pros & cons summary


Chip lithography 14 nm 12 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 50 Watt 10 Watt

Vega 3 Embedded has a 16.7% more advanced lithography process, and 400% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon Pro WX 4170 Mobile and Radeon Vega 3 Embedded. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon Pro WX 4170 Mobile is a mobile workstation card while Radeon Vega 3 Embedded is a desktop one.


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AMD Radeon Pro WX 4170 Mobile
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