GeForce 9700M GTS vs FirePro M8900
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9700M GTS and 2GB VRAM FirePro M8900 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce 9700M GTS 's Advantages
Lower TDP (60W vs 75W)
FirePro M8900 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 9 months late
More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (115.2GB/s vs 51.20GB/s)
912 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 9700M GTS
127
FirePro M8900
+928%
1306
Graphics Card
Jul 2008
Release Date
Apr 2011
GeForce 9M
Generation
FirePro Mobile
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
Clock Speeds
800 MHz
Memory Clock
900 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
51.20GB/s
Bandwidth
115.2GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
12
6
SM Count
-
48
Shading Units
960
24
TMUs
48
16
ROPs
32
-
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
64 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
Theoretical Performance
8.480 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
21.76 GPixel/s
12.72 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
32.64 GTexel/s
127.2 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1306 GFLOPS
Board Design
60W
TDP
75W
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
-
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
G94
GPU Name
Blackcomb
NB9E-GS
GPU Variant
Blackcomb XT GL
Tesla
Architecture
TeraScale 2
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
65 nm
Process Size
40 nm
0.505 billion
Transistors
1.7 billion
240 mm²
Die Size
212 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
3.3
OpenGL
4.4
1.1
OpenCL
1.2
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
1.1
CUDA
-
4.0
Shader Model
5.0