AMD FirePro M8900 vs NVIDIA Quadro FX Go540

VS

AMD FirePro M8900 NVIDIA Quadro FX Go540

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FirePro M8900 and 128MB VRAM Quadro FX Go540 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro M8900 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 8 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (115.2GB/s vs 7.200GB/s)

960 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA Quadro FX Go540 's Advantages

Lower TDP (25W vs 75W)

Score

FirePro M8900

VS

Quadro FX Go540

Graphics Card

Apr 2011

Release Date

Aug 2004

FirePro Mobile

Generation

Quadro FX Go

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

MXM-II

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

225 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

128MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

115.2GB/s

Bandwidth

7.200GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

12

Compute Units

-

960

Shading Units

-

48

TMUs

8

32

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

21.76 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.200 GPixel/s

32.64 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

2.400 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1306 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Blackcomb

GPU Name

NV43

Blackcomb XT GL

GPU Variant

QDFX-GO540-N-A4

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Curie

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

110 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

0.146 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

154 mm²

Board Design

75W

TDP

25W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

4.4

OpenGL

2.0 (full) 2.1 (partial)

1.2

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

5.0

Shader Model

3.0

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