AMD Radeon R7 A260 vs AMD FirePro M8900

VS

AMD Radeon R7 A260

AMD FirePro M8900

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon R7 A260 and 2GB VRAM FirePro M8900 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R7 A260 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock980MHz

AMD FirePro M8900 's Advantages

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (115.2GB/s vs 57.60GB/s)

576 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R7 A260

0.752 TFLOPS

FirePro M8900 +73%

1.306 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 A260

VS

FirePro M8900

Graphics Card

Jan 2014

Release Date

Apr 2011

All-In-One

Generation

FirePro Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

900 MHz

Base Clock

-

980 MHz

Boost Clock

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

57.60GB/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

7.840 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

21.76 GPixel/s

23.52 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

32.64 GTexel/s

-

752.6 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1306 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

75W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Topaz

GPU Name

Blackcomb

Topaz XT (216-0858020)

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

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

-

6.5

Shader Model

5.0

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