AMD FirePro M8900 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9700M GTS
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FirePro M8900 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9700M GTS 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 9 months late
More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (115.2GB/s vs 51.20GB/s)
912 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce 9700M GTS 's Advantages
Lower TDP (60W vs 75W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FirePro M8900
+928%
1.306 TFLOPS
GeForce 9700M GTS
0.127 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Apr 2011
Release Date
Jul 2008
FirePro Mobile
Generation
GeForce 9M
Mobile
Type
Mobile
MXM-B (3.0)
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
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-
-
-
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900 MHz
Memory Clock
800 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
115.2GB/s
Bandwidth
51.20GB/s
Render Config
12
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
6
960
Shading Units
48
48
TMUs
24
32
ROPs
16
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-
-
-
-
-
8 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
512 KB
L2 Cache
64 KB
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-
-
Theoretical Performance
21.76 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
8.480 GPixel/s
32.64 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
12.72 GTexel/s
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-
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1306 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
127.2 GFLOPS
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-
-
Board Design
75W
TDP
60W
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-
-
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
-
Graphics Processor
Blackcomb
GPU Name
G94
Blackcomb XT GL
GPU Variant
NB9E-GS
TeraScale 2
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
65 nm
1.7 billion
Transistors
0.505 billion
212 mm²
Die Size
240 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
