AMD FirePro M8900 vs NVIDIA NVS 4200M
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FirePro M8900 and 1024MB VRAM NVS 4200M 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 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (115.2GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)
912 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA NVS 4200M 's Advantages
Lower TDP (25W vs 75W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FirePro M8900
+737%
1.306 TFLOPS
NVS 4200M
0.156 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Apr 2011
Release Date
Feb 2011
FirePro Mobile
Generation
NVS Mobile
Mobile
Type
Mobile
MXM-B (3.0)
Bus Interface
MXM
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
900 MHz
Memory Clock
800 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
DDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
64bit
115.2GB/s
Bandwidth
12.80GB/s
Render Config
12
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
1
960
Shading Units
48
48
TMUs
8
32
ROPs
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
8 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
512 KB
L2 Cache
128 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
21.76 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
1.620 GPixel/s
32.64 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
6.480 GTexel/s
-
-
-
1306 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
155.5 GFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
12.96 GFLOPS
Board Design
75W
TDP
25W
-
-
-
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
-
Graphics Processor
Blackcomb
GPU Name
GF119
Blackcomb XT GL
GPU Variant
N12P-NS1-S-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
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
