AMD FirePro M8900 vs NVIDIA P106M
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FirePro M8900 and 4GB VRAM P106M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD FirePro M8900 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (115.2GB/s vs 96.13GB/s)
NVIDIA P106M 's Advantages
Released 7 years and 9 months late
Boost Clock1291MHz
More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)
192 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FirePro M8900
1.306 TFLOPS
P106M
+127%
2.974 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Apr 2011
Release Date
Jan 2019
FirePro Mobile
Generation
Mining GPUs
Mobile
Type
Mobile
MXM-B (3.0)
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1291 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1291 MHz
900 MHz
Memory Clock
1502 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
115.2GB/s
Bandwidth
96.13GB/s
Render Config
12
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
9
960
Shading Units
1152
48
TMUs
72
32
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
8 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SM)
512 KB
L2 Cache
1280 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
21.76 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
41.31 GPixel/s
32.64 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
92.95 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
46.48 GFLOPS
1306 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.974 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
92.95 GFLOPS
Board Design
75W
TDP
75W
-
-
-
No outputs
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Blackcomb
GPU Name
GP106
Blackcomb XT GL
GPU Variant
GP106-505-KC-A1
TeraScale 2
Architecture
Pascal
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
16 nm
1.7 billion
Transistors
4.4 billion
212 mm²
Die Size
200 mm²
Graphics Features
11.2 (11_0)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
4.4
OpenGL
4.6
1.2
OpenCL
3.0
N/A
Vulkan
1.3
-
CUDA
6.1
5.0
Shader Model
6.8
