AMD FirePro M8900 vs AMD Radeon HD 6850M

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We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FirePro M8900 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6850M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro M8900 's Advantages

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (115.2GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)

160 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 6850M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (50W vs 75W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro M8900 +20%

1.306 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6850M

1.08 TFLOPS

FirePro M8900

VS

Radeon HD 6850M

Graphics Card

Apr 2011

Release Date

Jan 2011

FirePro Mobile

Generation

Vancouver

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

115.2GB/s

Bandwidth

25.60GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

12

Compute Units

10

960

Shading Units

800

48

TMUs

40

32

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

21.76 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.80 GPixel/s

32.64 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

27.00 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1306 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1080 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Blackcomb

GPU Name

Granville

Blackcomb XT GL

GPU Variant

Granville PRO

TeraScale 2

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

1.04 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

166 mm²

Board Design

75W

TDP

50W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.4

OpenGL

4.4

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

5.0

Shader Model

5.0

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