AMD FirePro M8900 vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3850 X2

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AMD FirePro M8900 ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3850 X2

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FirePro M8900 and 512MB VRAM Mobility Radeon HD 3850 X2 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 10 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (115.2GB/s vs 48.00GB/s)

640 additional rendering cores

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3850 X2 's Advantages

Lower TDP (70W vs 75W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro M8900 +252%

1.306 TFLOPS

Mobility Radeon HD 3850 X2

0.371 TFLOPS

FirePro M8900

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Mobility Radeon HD 3850 X2

Graphics Card

Apr 2011

Release Date

Jun 2008

FirePro Mobile

Generation

M8x

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

750 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

115.2GB/s

Bandwidth

48.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

12

Compute Units

4

960

Shading Units

320

48

TMUs

16

32

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

21.76 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.280 GPixel/s

32.64 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

9.280 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1306 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

371.2 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

74.24 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Blackcomb

GPU Name

M88

Blackcomb XT GL

GPU Variant

-

TeraScale 2

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

55 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

0.666 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

192 mm²

Board Design

75W

TDP

70W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.4

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

5.0

Shader Model

4.1

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