AMD FirePro M8900 vs AMD Radeon HD 7970M

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We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FirePro M8900 and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro M8900 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 100W)

AMD Radeon HD 7970M 's Advantages

Released 1 years late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 115.2GB/s)

320 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro M8900

1.306 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970M +66%

2.176 TFLOPS

FirePro M8900

VS

Radeon HD 7970M

Graphics Card

Apr 2011

Release Date

Apr 2012

FirePro Mobile

Generation

London

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

115.2GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

12

Compute Units

20

960

Shading Units

1280

48

TMUs

80

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

21.76 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

27.20 GPixel/s

32.64 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

68.00 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1306 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.176 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

136.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Blackcomb

GPU Name

Wimbledon

Blackcomb XT GL

GPU Variant

Wimbledon XT (216-0836036)

TeraScale 2

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Board Design

75W

TDP

100W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

5.0

Shader Model

5.1

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