AMD FirePro M8900 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9200M GS GDDR3
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FirePro M8900 and 256MB VRAM GeForce 9200M GS GDDR3 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD FirePro M8900 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 10 months late
More VRAM (2GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (115.2GB/s vs 11.23GB/s)
952 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce 9200M GS GDDR3 's Advantages
Lower TDP (13W vs 75W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FirePro M8900
+6430%
1.306 TFLOPS
GeForce 9200M GS GDDR3
0.02 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Apr 2011
Release Date
Jun 2008
FirePro Mobile
Generation
GeForce 9M(9000M)
Mobile
Type
Mobile
MXM-B (3.0)
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
900 MHz
Memory Clock
702 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
256MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
64bit
115.2GB/s
Bandwidth
11.23GB/s
Render Config
12
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
1
960
Shading Units
8
48
TMUs
4
32
ROPs
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
8 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
512 KB
L2 Cache
16 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
21.76 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
2.116 GPixel/s
32.64 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
2.116 GTexel/s
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-
-
1306 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
20.80 GFLOPS
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-
-
Board Design
75W
TDP
13W
-
-
-
No outputs
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Blackcomb
GPU Name
G98
Blackcomb XT GL
GPU Variant
G98-700-U2
TeraScale 2
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
UMC
40 nm
Process Size
55 nm
1.7 billion
Transistors
0.21 billion
212 mm²
Die Size
80 mm²
Graphics Features
11.2 (11_0)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
4.4
OpenGL
3.3
1.2
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
1.1
5.0
Shader Model
4.0
