AMD FirePro M8900 vs AMD Radeon HD 8950M

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AMD FirePro M8900

AMD Radeon HD 8950M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FirePro M8900 and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8950M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro M8900 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (115.2GB/s vs 88.00GB/s)

192 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (75W vs 100W)

AMD Radeon HD 8950M 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 1 months late

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro M8900

1.306 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8950M +26%

1.651 TFLOPS

FirePro M8900

VS

Radeon HD 8950M

Graphics Card

Apr 2011

Release Date

May 2013

FirePro Mobile

Generation

Solar System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

115.2GB/s

Bandwidth

88.00GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

12

-

960

Shading Units

768

48

TMUs

48

32

ROPs

16

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

21.76 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.20 GPixel/s

32.64 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

51.60 GTexel/s

-

1306 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.651 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

103.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

75W

TDP

100W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

Blackcomb

GPU Name

Saturn

Blackcomb XT GL

GPU Variant

Saturn XT

TeraScale 2

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

2.08 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

160 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

-

5.0

Shader Model

6.3

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