AMD FirePro M8900 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9700M GT

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AMD FirePro M8900 NVIDIA GeForce 9700M GT

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FirePro M8900 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9700M GT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro M8900 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 9 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (115.2GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)

928 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 9700M GT 's Advantages

Lower TDP (45W vs 75W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro M8900 +1219%

1.306 TFLOPS

GeForce 9700M GT

0.099 TFLOPS

FirePro M8900

VS

GeForce 9700M GT

Graphics Card

Apr 2011

Release Date

Jul 2008

FirePro Mobile

Generation

GeForce 9M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

MXM-II

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

115.2GB/s

Bandwidth

25.60GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

4

12

Compute Units

-

960

Shading Units

32

48

TMUs

16

32

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

Theoretical Performance

21.76 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

5.000 GPixel/s

32.64 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

10.00 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1306 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

99.20 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Blackcomb

GPU Name

G96

Blackcomb XT GL

GPU Variant

NB9E-GE

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

UMC

40 nm

Process Size

65 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

0.314 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

144 mm²

Board Design

75W

TDP

45W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

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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