NVIDIA GeForce 940A vs AMD FirePro M8900

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 940A

AMD FirePro M8900

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce 940A and 2GB VRAM FirePro M8900 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 940A 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock1124MHz

Lower TDP (33W vs 75W)

AMD FirePro M8900 's Advantages

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (115.2GB/s vs 16.02GB/s)

576 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 940A

0.863 TFLOPS

FirePro M8900 +51%

1.306 TFLOPS

GeForce 940A

VS

FirePro M8900

Graphics Card

Mar 2015

Release Date

Apr 2011

GeForce 900A

Generation

FirePro Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

1029 MHz

Base Clock

-

1124 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1001 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

16.02GB/s

Bandwidth

115.2GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

12

-

384

Shading Units

960

16

TMUs

48

8

ROPs

32

-

64 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

8.992 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

21.76 GPixel/s

17.98 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

32.64 GTexel/s

-

863.2 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1306 GFLOPS

26.98 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

33W

TDP

75W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GM108

GPU Name

Blackcomb

-

GPU Variant

Blackcomb XT GL

Maxwell

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

Unknown

Transistors

1.7 billion

Unknown

Die Size

212 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

5.0

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.0

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