AMD FirePro M8900 vs AMD Radeon R9 M390X

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We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FirePro M8900 and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 M390X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 M390X 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 1 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.0GB/s vs 115.2GB/s)

1088 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro M8900

1.306 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M390X +126%

2.961 TFLOPS

FirePro M8900

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Radeon R9 M390X

Graphics Card

Apr 2011

Release Date

May 2015

FirePro Mobile

Generation

Crystal System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

115.2GB/s

Bandwidth

160.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

12

Compute Units

32

960

Shading Units

2048

48

TMUs

128

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

23.14 GPixel/s

32.64 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

92.54 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

2.961 TFLOPS

1306 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.961 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

185.1 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Blackcomb

GPU Name

Amethyst

Blackcomb XT GL

GPU Variant

Amethyst XT

TeraScale 2

Architecture

GCN 3.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

5 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

366 mm²

Board Design

75W

TDP

75W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

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

-

CUDA

-

5.0

Shader Model

6.3

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