AMD FirePro M8900 vs NVIDIA NVS 3100M
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FirePro M8900 and 512MB VRAM NVS 3100M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD FirePro M8900 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 3 months late
More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (115.2GB/s vs 12.64GB/s)
944 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA NVS 3100M 's Advantages
Lower TDP (14W vs 75W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FirePro M8900
+2678%
1.306 TFLOPS
NVS 3100M
0.047 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Apr 2011
Release Date
Jan 2010
FirePro Mobile
Generation
NVS Mobile
Mobile
Type
Mobile
MXM-B (3.0)
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
900 MHz
Memory Clock
790 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
64bit
115.2GB/s
Bandwidth
12.64GB/s
Render Config
12
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
2
960
Shading Units
16
48
TMUs
8
32
ROPs
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
8 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
512 KB
L2 Cache
32 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
21.76 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
2.424 GPixel/s
32.64 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
4.848 GTexel/s
-
-
-
1306 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
46.98 GFLOPS
-
-
-
Board Design
75W
TDP
14W
-
-
-
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
-
Graphics Processor
Blackcomb
GPU Name
GT218
Blackcomb XT GL
GPU Variant
N10M-NS
TeraScale 2
Architecture
Tesla 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
40 nm
1.7 billion
Transistors
0.26 billion
212 mm²
Die Size
57 mm²
Graphics Features
11.2 (11_0)
DirectX
11.1 (10_1)
4.4
OpenGL
3.3
1.2
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
1.2
5.0
Shader Model
4.1
