NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M vs AMD FirePro M8900

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M

AMD FirePro M8900

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 870M and 2GB VRAM FirePro M8900 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock967MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (120.0GB/s vs 115.2GB/s)

384 additional rendering cores

AMD FirePro M8900 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 870M +99%

2.599 TFLOPS

FirePro M8900

1.306 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 870M

VS

FirePro M8900

Graphics Card

Mar 2014

Release Date

Apr 2011

GeForce 800M

Generation

FirePro Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

941 MHz

Base Clock

-

967 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

120.0GB/s

Bandwidth

115.2GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

12

-

1344

Shading Units

960

112

TMUs

48

24

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

384 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

27.08 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

21.76 GPixel/s

108.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

32.64 GTexel/s

-

2.599 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1306 GFLOPS

108.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

100W

TDP

75W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GK104

GPU Name

Blackcomb

N15E-GT-A2

GPU Variant

Blackcomb XT GL

Kepler

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

3.54 billion

Transistors

1.7 billion

294 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.1

Vulkan

N/A

3.0

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.0

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