AMD Radeon R9 M470X vs AMD FirePro M8900

VS

AMD Radeon R9 M470X

AMD FirePro M8900

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 M470X and 2GB VRAM FirePro M8900 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 M470X 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock1100MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

AMD FirePro M8900 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (115.2GB/s vs 76.80GB/s)

64 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 M470X +50%

1.971 TFLOPS

FirePro M8900

1.306 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M470X

VS

FirePro M8900

Graphics Card

May 2016

Release Date

Apr 2011

Gem System

Generation

FirePro Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

1000 MHz

Base Clock

-

1100 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

76.80GB/s

Bandwidth

115.2GB/s

Render Config

14

Compute Units

12

-

896

Shading Units

960

56

TMUs

48

16

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

17.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

21.76 GPixel/s

61.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

32.64 GTexel/s

-

1.971 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1306 GFLOPS

123.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

75W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Emerald

GPU Name

Blackcomb

Emerald 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

2.1

OpenCL

1.2

1.2.170

Vulkan

N/A

-

6.5

Shader Model

5.0

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