AMD FirePro M8900 vs AMD Radeon RX 480 Mobile

VS

AMD FirePro M8900

AMD Radeon RX 480 Mobile

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FirePro M8900 and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 480 Mobile 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 RX 480 Mobile 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock1077MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 115.2GB/s)

1344 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro M8900

1.306 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 480 Mobile +280%

4.963 TFLOPS

FirePro M8900

VS

Radeon RX 480 Mobile

Graphics Card

Apr 2011

Release Date

Aug 2016

FirePro Mobile

Generation

Mobility Radeon

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1000 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1077 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

115.2GB/s

Bandwidth

256.0GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

36

-

960

Shading Units

2304

48

TMUs

144

32

ROPs

32

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

21.76 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

34.46 GPixel/s

32.64 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

155.1 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

4.963 TFLOPS

1306 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.963 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

310.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

75W

TDP

100W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Blackcomb

GPU Name

Ellesmere

Blackcomb XT GL

GPU Variant

Ellesmere XT

TeraScale 2

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

40 nm

Process Size

14 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

232 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.1

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

-

5.0

Shader Model

6.4

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