AMD FirePro M8900 vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4850

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AMD FirePro M8900

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4850

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FirePro M8900 and 1024MB VRAM Mobility Radeon HD 4850 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 3 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (115.2GB/s vs 54.40GB/s)

160 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro M8900 +62%

1.306 TFLOPS

Mobility Radeon HD 4850

0.804 TFLOPS

FirePro M8900

VS

Mobility Radeon HD 4850

Graphics Card

Apr 2011

Release Date

Jan 2009

FirePro Mobile

Generation

M9x

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

850 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

115.2GB/s

Bandwidth

54.40GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

10

-

960

Shading Units

800

48

TMUs

40

32

ROPs

16

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

21.76 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

8.048 GPixel/s

32.64 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

20.12 GTexel/s

-

1306 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

804.8 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

161.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

75W

TDP

Unknown

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

Blackcomb

GPU Name

M98

Blackcomb XT GL

GPU Variant

M98 L2 (216-0732019)

TeraScale 2

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

55 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

0.956 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

256 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.4

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

5.0

Shader Model

4.1

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