ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5850 Mac Edition vs AMD FirePro M8900

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ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5850 Mac Edition

AMD FirePro M8900

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Mobility Radeon HD 5850 Mac Edition and 2GB VRAM FirePro M8900 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5850 Mac Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (30W vs 75W)

AMD FirePro M8900 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 3 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (115.2GB/s vs 64.00GB/s)

160 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Mobility Radeon HD 5850 Mac Edition

1.005 TFLOPS

FirePro M8900 +29%

1.306 TFLOPS

Mobility Radeon HD 5850 Mac Edition

VS

FirePro M8900

Graphics Card

Jan 2010

Release Date

Apr 2011

Manhattan

Generation

FirePro Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

64.00GB/s

Bandwidth

115.2GB/s

Render Config

10

Compute Units

12

-

800

Shading Units

960

40

TMUs

48

16

ROPs

32

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

10.05 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

21.76 GPixel/s

25.12 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

32.64 GTexel/s

-

1005 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1306 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

30W

TDP

75W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Broadway

GPU Name

Blackcomb

Broadway PRO (216-0769024)

GPU Variant

Blackcomb XT GL

TeraScale 2

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

1.04 billion

Transistors

1.7 billion

166 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.4

OpenGL

4.4

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

5.0

Shader Model

5.0

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