AMD Radeon R5 M315 vs AMD FirePro M8900

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We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R5 M315 and 2GB VRAM FirePro M8900 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R5 M315 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 1 months late

AMD FirePro M8900 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (115.2GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

576 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R5 M315

0.745 TFLOPS

FirePro M8900 +75%

1.306 TFLOPS

Radeon R5 M315

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FirePro M8900

Graphics Card

May 2015

Release Date

Apr 2011

Gem System

Generation

FirePro Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

14.40GB/s

Bandwidth

115.2GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

6

Compute Units

12

384

Shading Units

960

24

TMUs

48

8

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

128 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

7.760 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

21.76 GPixel/s

23.28 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

32.64 GTexel/s

745.0 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

745.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1306 GFLOPS

46.56 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Meso

GPU Name

Blackcomb

Meso LE (216-0864046)

GPU Variant

Blackcomb XT GL

GCN 3.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

1.55 billion

Transistors

1.7 billion

125 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

75W

-

Suggested PSU

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

2.1

OpenCL

1.2

1.2.170

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

6.5

Shader Model

5.0

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