AMD FirePro M8900 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 445M

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AMD FirePro M8900 NVIDIA GeForce GT 445M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FirePro M8900 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 445M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro M8900 's Advantages

Released 7 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (115.2GB/s vs 40.00GB/s)

816 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 445M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (35W vs 75W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro M8900 +298%

1.306 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 445M

0.328 TFLOPS

FirePro M8900

VS

GeForce GT 445M

Graphics Card

Apr 2011

Release Date

Sep 2010

FirePro Mobile

Generation

GeForce 400M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

625 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

115.2GB/s

Bandwidth

40.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

3

12

Compute Units

-

960

Shading Units

144

48

TMUs

24

32

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

21.76 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.420 GPixel/s

32.64 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

13.68 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1306 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

328.3 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

27.36 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Blackcomb

GPU Name

GF106

Blackcomb XT GL

GPU Variant

N11E-GE-A1

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Fermi

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

1.17 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

238 mm²

Board Design

75W

TDP

35W

-

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

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

2.1

5.0

Shader Model

5.1

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