AMD FirePro M8900 vs AMD Radeon HD 6950M

VS

AMD FirePro M8900

AMD Radeon HD 6950M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FirePro M8900 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6950M 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 1024GB)

AMD Radeon HD 6950M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (50W vs 75W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro M8900 +17%

1.306 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6950M

1.114 TFLOPS

FirePro M8900

VS

Radeon HD 6950M

Graphics Card

Apr 2011

Release Date

Jan 2011

FirePro Mobile

Generation

Vancouver

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

115.2GB/s

Bandwidth

115.2GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

12

-

960

Shading Units

960

48

TMUs

48

32

ROPs

32

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

21.76 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

18.56 GPixel/s

32.64 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

27.84 GTexel/s

-

1306 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1114 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

75W

TDP

50W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

Blackcomb

GPU Name

Blackcomb

Blackcomb XT GL

GPU Variant

Blackcomb PRO

TeraScale 2

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

1.7 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

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

-

5.0

Shader Model

5.0

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