AMD FirePro M8900 vs NVIDIA GeForce 930MX
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FirePro M8900 and 2GB VRAM GeForce 930MX 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)
576 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce 930MX 's Advantages
Released 4 years and 11 months late
Boost Clock1020MHz
Lower TDP (17W vs 75W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FirePro M8900
+66%
1.306 TFLOPS
GeForce 930MX
0.783 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Apr 2011
Release Date
Mar 2016
FirePro Mobile
Generation
GeForce 900M
Mobile
Type
Mobile
MXM-B (3.0)
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
952 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1020 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
12
Compute Units
-
-
-
-
960
Shading Units
384
48
TMUs
24
32
ROPs
8
-
-
-
-
-
-
8 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SMM)
512 KB
L2 Cache
1024 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
21.76 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
8.160 GPixel/s
32.64 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
24.48 GTexel/s
-
-
-
1306 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
783.4 GFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
24.48 GFLOPS
Board Design
75W
TDP
17W
-
-
-
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Blackcomb
GPU Name
GM108
Blackcomb XT GL
GPU Variant
N16S-GMR
TeraScale 2
Architecture
Maxwell
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
28 nm
1.7 billion
Transistors
Unknown
212 mm²
Die Size
Unknown
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
5.0
Shader Model
5.1
