NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M vs AMD FirePro M8900

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M

AMD FirePro M8900

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980M 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 980M 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock1127MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.4GB/s vs 115.2GB/s)

576 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 980M +165%

3.462 TFLOPS

FirePro M8900

1.306 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980M

VS

FirePro M8900

Graphics Card

Oct 2014

Release Date

Apr 2011

GeForce 900M

Generation

FirePro Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

1038 MHz

Base Clock

-

1127 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1253 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

160.4GB/s

Bandwidth

115.2GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

12

-

1536

Shading Units

960

96

TMUs

48

64

ROPs

32

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

72.13 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

21.76 GPixel/s

108.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

32.64 GTexel/s

-

3.462 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1306 GFLOPS

108.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

75W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

Blackcomb

N16E-GX-A1

GPU Variant

Blackcomb XT GL

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

1.7 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

5.2

CUDA

-

6.7 (6.4)

Shader Model

5.0

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