NVIDIA GeForce GT 555M vs AMD FirePro M8900

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 555M

AMD FirePro M8900

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 555M and 2GB VRAM FirePro M8900 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GT 555M 's Advantages

Released 11 months late

Lower TDP (35W vs 75W)

AMD FirePro M8900 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (115.2GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

816 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 555M

0.389 TFLOPS

FirePro M8900 +235%

1.306 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 555M

VS

FirePro M8900

Graphics Card

Mar 2012

Release Date

Apr 2011

GeForce 500M

Generation

FirePro Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

28.80GB/s

Bandwidth

115.2GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

12

2

SM Count

-

144

Shading Units

960

24

TMUs

48

16

ROPs

32

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

2.700 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

21.76 GPixel/s

16.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

32.64 GTexel/s

-

388.8 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1306 GFLOPS

32.40 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

35W

TDP

75W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GF116

GPU Name

Blackcomb

N12E-GE2-A1

GPU Variant

Blackcomb XT GL

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

1.17 billion

Transistors

1.7 billion

238 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

2.1

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.0

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