AMD FirePro M8900 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 520MX

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AMD FirePro M8900 NVIDIA GeForce GT 520MX

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FirePro M8900 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 520MX to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro M8900 's Advantages

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (115.2GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

912 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 520MX 's Advantages

Lower TDP (20W vs 75W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro M8900 +654%

1.306 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 520MX

0.173 TFLOPS

FirePro M8900

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GeForce GT 520MX

Graphics Card

Apr 2011

Release Date

May 2011

FirePro Mobile

Generation

GeForce 500M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

115.2GB/s

Bandwidth

14.40GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

1

12

Compute Units

-

960

Shading Units

48

TMUs

8

32

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

Theoretical Performance

21.76 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.800 GPixel/s

32.64 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

7.200 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1306 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

172.8 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

14.40 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Blackcomb

GPU Name

GF119

Blackcomb XT GL

GPU Variant

N12P-GVR-B-A1

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

0.292 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

79 mm²

Board Design

75W

TDP

20W

-

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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