AMD FirePro M8900 vs NVIDIA GeForce 620M
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FirePro M8900 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce 620M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD FirePro M8900 's Advantages
More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (115.2GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)
864 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce 620M 's Advantages
Released 11 months late
Lower TDP (15W vs 75W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FirePro M8900
+444%
1.306 TFLOPS
GeForce 620M
0.24 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Apr 2011
Release Date
Mar 2012
FirePro Mobile
Generation
GeForce 600M
Mobile
Type
Mobile
MXM-B (3.0)
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
900 MHz
Memory Clock
900 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
DDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
64bit
115.2GB/s
Bandwidth
14.40GB/s
Render Config
12
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
2
960
Shading Units
96
48
TMUs
16
32
ROPs
8
-
-
-
-
-
-
8 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
512 KB
L2 Cache
128 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
21.76 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
2.500 GPixel/s
32.64 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
10.00 GTexel/s
-
-
-
1306 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
240.0 GFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
20.00 GFLOPS
Board Design
75W
TDP
15W
-
-
-
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
-
Graphics Processor
Blackcomb
GPU Name
GF117
Blackcomb XT GL
GPU Variant
N13P-GLP
TeraScale 2
Architecture
Fermi 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
28 nm
1.7 billion
Transistors
0.585 billion
212 mm²
Die Size
116 mm²
Graphics Features
11.2 (11_0)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
4.4
OpenGL
4.6
1.2
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
2.1
5.0
Shader Model
5.1
