AMD FirePro M8900 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 730M

VS

AMD FirePro M8900

NVIDIA GeForce GT 730M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FirePro M8900 and 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 730M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro M8900 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (115.2GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

576 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 730M 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 11 months late

Lower TDP (33W vs 75W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro M8900 +136%

1.306 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 730M

0.552 TFLOPS

FirePro M8900

VS

GeForce GT 730M

Graphics Card

Apr 2011

Release Date

Mar 2014

FirePro Mobile

Generation

GeForce 700M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

115.2GB/s

Bandwidth

14.40GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

-

960

Shading Units

384

48

TMUs

32

ROPs

8

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

512 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

21.76 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

5.752 GPixel/s

32.64 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

23.01 GTexel/s

-

1306 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

552.2 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

23.01 GFLOPS

Board Design

75W

TDP

33W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

Blackcomb

GPU Name

GK208

Blackcomb XT GL

GPU Variant

GT 730M

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Kepler 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

1.02 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

87 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.1

-

CUDA

3.5

5.0

Shader Model

5.1

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