AMD FirePro M6000 vs AMD FirePro M8900
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FirePro M6000 and 2GB VRAM FirePro M8900 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD FirePro M6000 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 3 months late
Lower TDP (43W vs 75W)
AMD FirePro M8900 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (115.2GB/s vs 64.00GB/s)
320 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FirePro M6000
1.024 TFLOPS
FirePro M8900
+27%
1.306 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jul 2012
Release Date
Apr 2011
FirePro Mobile
Generation
FirePro Mobile
Mobile
Type
Mobile
MXM-B (3.0)
Bus Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
1000 MHz
Memory Clock
900 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
64.00GB/s
Bandwidth
115.2GB/s
Render Config
10
Compute Units
12
-
-
-
640
Shading Units
960
40
TMUs
48
16
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
256 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
12.80 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
21.76 GPixel/s
32.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
32.64 GTexel/s
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-
-
1024 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1306 GFLOPS
64.00 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
43W
TDP
75W
-
-
-
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Heathrow
GPU Name
Blackcomb
Heathrow XT GL
(216-0835033)
GPU Variant
Blackcomb XT GL
GCN 1.0
Architecture
TeraScale 2
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
40 nm
1.5 billion
Transistors
1.7 billion
123 mm²
Die Size
212 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_1)
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.4
1.2
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
Vulkan
N/A
-
-
-
5.1
Shader Model
5.0
