AMD Radeon HD 8950M vs AMD FirePro M8900

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AMD Radeon HD 8950M

AMD FirePro M8900

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8950M 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 8950M 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 1 months late

AMD FirePro M8900 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (115.2GB/s vs 88.00GB/s)

192 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (75W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8950M +26%

1.651 TFLOPS

FirePro M8900

1.306 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8950M

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FirePro M8900

Graphics Card

May 2013

Release Date

Apr 2011

Solar System

Generation

FirePro Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

-

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

88.00GB/s

Bandwidth

115.2GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

12

-

768

Shading Units

960

48

TMUs

48

16

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

17.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

21.76 GPixel/s

51.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

32.64 GTexel/s

-

1.651 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1306 GFLOPS

103.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

100W

TDP

75W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Saturn

GPU Name

Blackcomb

Saturn XT

GPU Variant

Blackcomb XT GL

GCN 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

1.7 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

2.0

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

6.3

Shader Model

5.0

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