AMD FirePro M8900 vs ATI Mobility FireGL V5250
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FirePro M8900 and 256MB VRAM Mobility FireGL V5250 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD FirePro M8900 's Advantages
Released 4 years and 3 months late
More VRAM (2GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (115.2GB/s vs 11.20GB/s)
960 additional rendering cores
Score
Graphics Card
Apr 2011
Release Date
Jan 2007
FirePro Mobile
Generation
Mobility FireGL
Mobile
Type
Mobile
MXM-B (3.0)
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
900 MHz
Memory Clock
350 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
256MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
115.2GB/s
Bandwidth
11.20GB/s
Render Config
12
Compute Units
-
-
-
-
960
Shading Units
-
48
TMUs
12
32
ROPs
12
-
-
-
-
-
-
8 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
512 KB
L2 Cache
-
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
21.76 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
5.400 GPixel/s
32.64 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
5.400 GTexel/s
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-
-
1306 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
-
-
-
-
Board Design
75W
TDP
Unknown
-
-
-
No outputs
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
None
Power Connectors
-
Graphics Processor
Blackcomb
GPU Name
M66
Blackcomb XT GL
GPU Variant
M66-P
(216BGCKC13FG)
TeraScale 2
Architecture
Ultra-Threaded SE
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
90 nm
1.7 billion
Transistors
0.157 billion
212 mm²
Die Size
150 mm²
Graphics Features
11.2 (11_0)
DirectX
9.0c (9_3)
4.4
OpenGL
2.1
1.2
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
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-
-
5.0
Shader Model
3.0
