AMD FirePro M8900 vs AMD Radeon HD 7470M

VS

AMD FirePro M8900

AMD Radeon HD 7470M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FirePro M8900 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 7470M 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)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (115.2GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

800 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 7470M 's Advantages

Released 9 months late

Boost Clock800MHz

Lower TDP (25W vs 75W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro M8900 +410%

1.306 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7470M

0.256 TFLOPS

FirePro M8900

VS

Radeon HD 7470M

Graphics Card

Apr 2011

Release Date

Jan 2012

FirePro Mobile

Generation

London

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

750 MHz

-

Boost Clock

800 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

115.2GB/s

Bandwidth

14.40GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

2

-

960

Shading Units

160

48

TMUs

8

32

ROPs

4

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

21.76 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.200 GPixel/s

32.64 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

6.400 GTexel/s

-

1306 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

256.0 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

75W

TDP

25W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

Blackcomb

GPU Name

Seymour

Blackcomb XT GL

GPU Variant

Seymour XT (216-0810084)

TeraScale 2

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

0.37 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

67 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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