AMD Radeon HD 8730M vs AMD FirePro M8900

VS

AMD Radeon HD 8730M

AMD FirePro M8900

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8730M and 2GB VRAM FirePro M8900 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 8730M 's Advantages

Released 2 years late

Boost Clock700MHz

AMD FirePro M8900 's Advantages

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

576 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8730M

0.537 TFLOPS

FirePro M8900 +143%

1.306 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8730M

VS

FirePro M8900

Graphics Card

Apr 2013

Release Date

Apr 2011

Solar System

Generation

FirePro Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

650 MHz

Base Clock

-

700 MHz

Boost Clock

-

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

6

Compute Units

12

-

384

Shading Units

960

24

TMUs

48

8

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

5.600 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

21.76 GPixel/s

16.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

32.64 GTexel/s

-

537.6 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1306 GFLOPS

33.60 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

75W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Mars

GPU Name

Blackcomb

Mars S3 PRO (216-0842027)

GPU Variant

Blackcomb XT GL

GCN 1.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.95 billion

Transistors

1.7 billion

77 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

2.1 (1.2)

OpenCL

1.2

1.2.170

Vulkan

N/A

-

6.5 (5.1)

Shader Model

5.0

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