AMD FirePro M8900 vs NVIDIA GeForce Go 6800 Ultra

VS

AMD FirePro M8900

NVIDIA GeForce Go 6800 Ultra

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FirePro M8900 and 256MB VRAM GeForce Go 6800 Ultra to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro M8900 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 2 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (115.2GB/s vs 38.40GB/s)

960 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (75W vs 89W)

Score

FirePro M8900

VS

GeForce Go 6800 Ultra

Graphics Card

Apr 2011

Release Date

Feb 2005

FirePro Mobile

Generation

GeForce Go 6

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

600 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

115.2GB/s

Bandwidth

38.40GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

-

960

Shading Units

-

48

TMUs

12

32

ROPs

8

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

21.76 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.600 GPixel/s

32.64 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

5.400 GTexel/s

-

1306 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

Board Design

75W

TDP

89W

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Blackcomb

GPU Name

NV41

Blackcomb XT GL

GPU Variant

GO6800 U

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Curie

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

130 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

0.19 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

225 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

4.4

OpenGL

2.0 (full) 2.1 (partial)

1.2

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

5.0

Shader Model

3.0

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