AMD FirePro M8900 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850M

VS

AMD FirePro M8900

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FirePro M8900 and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 850M 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 32.03GB/s)

320 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850M 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 11 months late

Lower TDP (45W vs 75W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro M8900 +13%

1.306 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 850M

1.155 TFLOPS

FirePro M8900

VS

GeForce GTX 850M

Graphics Card

Apr 2011

Release Date

Mar 2014

FirePro Mobile

Generation

GeForce 800M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1001 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

115.2GB/s

Bandwidth

32.03GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

-

960

Shading Units

640

48

TMUs

40

32

ROPs

16

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SMM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

21.76 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

14.43 GPixel/s

32.64 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

36.08 GTexel/s

-

1306 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1155 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

36.08 GFLOPS

Board Design

75W

TDP

45W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

Blackcomb

GPU Name

GM107

Blackcomb XT GL

GPU Variant

N15P-GT-A1

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Maxwell

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

1.87 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

148 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

5.0

Shader Model

5.1

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