AMD Radeon RX 470 Mobile vs AMD FirePro M8900

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AMD Radeon RX 470 Mobile AMD FirePro M8900

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 470 Mobile and 2GB VRAM FirePro M8900 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 470 Mobile 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock1074MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 115.2GB/s)

1088 additional rendering cores

AMD FirePro M8900 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 85W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 470 Mobile +236%

4.399 TFLOPS

FirePro M8900

1.306 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 470 Mobile

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FirePro M8900

Graphics Card

Aug 2016

Release Date

Apr 2011

Mobility Radeon

Generation

FirePro Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

926 MHz

Base Clock

-

1074 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

115.2GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

32

Compute Units

12

2048

Shading Units

960

128

TMUs

48

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

34.37 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

21.76 GPixel/s

137.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

32.64 GTexel/s

4.399 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.399 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1306 GFLOPS

274.9 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Ellesmere

GPU Name

Blackcomb

Ellesmere PRO

GPU Variant

Blackcomb XT GL

GCN 4.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

40 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

1.7 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Board Design

85W

TDP

75W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

2.1

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

5.0

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