AMD FirePro M8900 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT

VS

AMD FirePro M8900

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FirePro M8900 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600M GT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro M8900 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 11 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (115.2GB/s vs 22.40GB/s)

928 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT 's Advantages

Lower TDP (20W vs 75W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro M8900 +2040%

1.306 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600M GT

0.061 TFLOPS

FirePro M8900

VS

GeForce 8600M GT

Graphics Card

Apr 2011

Release Date

May 2007

FirePro Mobile

Generation

GeForce 8M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

MXM-II

Clock Speeds

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

700 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

115.2GB/s

Bandwidth

22.40GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

-

SM Count

4

960

Shading Units

32

48

TMUs

16

32

ROPs

8

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

21.76 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.800 GPixel/s

32.64 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

7.600 GTexel/s

-

1306 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

60.80 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

75W

TDP

20W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

Blackcomb

GPU Name

G84

Blackcomb XT GL

GPU Variant

NB8P-GS

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

80 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

0.289 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

169 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.4

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

5.0

Shader Model

4.0

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