AMD FirePro M8900 vs NVIDIA NVS 5100M

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We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FirePro M8900 and 1024MB VRAM NVS 5100M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro M8900 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 3 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (115.2GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)

912 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA NVS 5100M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (35W vs 75W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro M8900 +1025%

1.306 TFLOPS

NVS 5100M

0.116 TFLOPS

FirePro M8900

VS

NVS 5100M

Graphics Card

Apr 2011

Release Date

Jan 2010

FirePro Mobile

Generation

NVS Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

MXM-A (3.0)

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

115.2GB/s

Bandwidth

25.60GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

6

12

Compute Units

-

960

Shading Units

48

TMUs

16

32

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

Theoretical Performance

21.76 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.400 GPixel/s

32.64 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

8.800 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1306 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

116.2 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Blackcomb

GPU Name

GT216

Blackcomb XT GL

GPU Variant

N10P-NS

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

0.486 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

100 mm²

Board Design

75W

TDP

35W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_1)

4.4

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.2

5.0

Shader Model

4.1

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