AMD FirePro M8900 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTS 160M

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AMD FirePro M8900

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 160M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FirePro M8900 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTS 160M 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 1 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (115.2GB/s vs 51.20GB/s)

896 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 160M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (60W vs 75W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro M8900 +580%

1.306 TFLOPS

GeForce GTS 160M

0.192 TFLOPS

FirePro M8900

VS

GeForce GTS 160M

Graphics Card

Apr 2011

Release Date

Mar 2009

FirePro Mobile

Generation

GeForce 100M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

115.2GB/s

Bandwidth

51.20GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

-

SM Count

8

960

Shading Units

64

48

TMUs

32

ROPs

16

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

21.76 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.600 GPixel/s

32.64 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

19.20 GTexel/s

-

1306 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

192.0 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

75W

TDP

60W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

Blackcomb

GPU Name

G94

Blackcomb XT GL

GPU Variant

N10E-GS1

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

65 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

0.505 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

240 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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