AMD FirePro M8900 vs ATI Mobility Radeon X1700

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AMD FirePro M8900

ATI Mobility Radeon X1700

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FirePro M8900 and 256MB VRAM Mobility Radeon X1700 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro M8900 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 2 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (115.2GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

960 additional rendering cores

Score

FirePro M8900

VS

Mobility Radeon X1700

Graphics Card

Apr 2011

Release Date

Feb 2006

FirePro Mobile

Generation

M6x

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

115.2GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

-

960

Shading Units

-

48

TMUs

4

32

ROPs

4

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

21.76 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.900 GPixel/s

32.64 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

1.900 GTexel/s

-

1306 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

Board Design

75W

TDP

Unknown

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

Blackcomb

GPU Name

M66

Blackcomb XT GL

GPU Variant

M66-P (216BGCKC13FG)

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Ultra-Threaded SE

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

90 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

0.157 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

150 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

4.4

OpenGL

2.1

1.2

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

5.0

Shader Model

3.0

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