AMD FirePro M8900 vs NVIDIA GeForce 830M

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We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FirePro M8900 and 2GB VRAM GeForce 830M 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 14.40GB/s)

704 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 830M 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock1150MHz

Lower TDP (33W vs 75W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro M8900 +121%

1.306 TFLOPS

GeForce 830M

0.589 TFLOPS

FirePro M8900

VS

GeForce 830M

Graphics Card

Apr 2011

Release Date

Mar 2014

FirePro Mobile

Generation

GeForce 800M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1082 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1150 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

115.2GB/s

Bandwidth

14.40GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

12

Compute Units

-

960

Shading Units

256

48

TMUs

16

32

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SMM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

21.76 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.200 GPixel/s

32.64 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

18.40 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1306 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

588.8 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

18.40 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Blackcomb

GPU Name

GM108

Blackcomb XT GL

GPU Variant

-

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Maxwell

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

Unknown

212 mm²

Die Size

Unknown

Board Design

75W

TDP

33W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

5.0

Shader Model

5.1

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