NVIDIA GeForce GTS 160M vs AMD FirePro M8900

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 160M

AMD FirePro M8900

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTS 160M and 2GB VRAM FirePro M8900 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 160M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (60W vs 75W)

AMD FirePro M8900 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 1 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (115.2GB/s vs 51.20GB/s)

896 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTS 160M

0.192 TFLOPS

FirePro M8900 +580%

1.306 TFLOPS

GeForce GTS 160M

VS

FirePro M8900

Graphics Card

Mar 2009

Release Date

Apr 2011

GeForce 100M

Generation

FirePro Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

-

800 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

51.20GB/s

Bandwidth

115.2GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

12

8

SM Count

-

64

Shading Units

960

32

TMUs

48

16

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

64 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

9.600 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

21.76 GPixel/s

19.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

32.64 GTexel/s

-

192.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1306 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

60W

TDP

75W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

G94

GPU Name

Blackcomb

N10E-GS1

GPU Variant

Blackcomb XT GL

Tesla

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.505 billion

Transistors

1.7 billion

240 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.4

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

5.0

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