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