AMD FirePro M8900 vs ATI Radeon E4690 MXM
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FirePro M8900 and 512MB VRAM Radeon E4690 MXM 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 10 months late
More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (115.2GB/s vs 22.40GB/s)
640 additional rendering cores
ATI Radeon E4690 MXM 's Advantages
Lower TDP (30W vs 75W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FirePro M8900
+240%
1.306 TFLOPS
Radeon E4690 MXM
0.384 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Apr 2011
Release Date
Jun 2009
FirePro Mobile
Generation
Embedded
Mobile
Type
Mobile
MXM-B (3.0)
Bus Interface
MXM-II
Clock Speeds
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-
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900 MHz
Memory Clock
700 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
115.2GB/s
Bandwidth
22.40GB/s
Render Config
12
Compute Units
4
-
-
-
960
Shading Units
320
48
TMUs
32
32
ROPs
8
-
-
-
-
-
-
8 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
512 KB
L2 Cache
128 KB
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-
-
Theoretical Performance
21.76 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
4.800 GPixel/s
32.64 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
19.20 GTexel/s
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-
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1306 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
384.0 GFLOPS
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-
-
Board Design
75W
TDP
30W
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-
-
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
-
Graphics Processor
Blackcomb
GPU Name
RV730
Blackcomb XT GL
GPU Variant
RV730 XT E4690
(215-0729055)
TeraScale 2
Architecture
TeraScale
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
55 nm
1.7 billion
Transistors
0.514 billion
212 mm²
Die Size
146 mm²
Graphics Features
11.2 (11_0)
DirectX
10.1 (10_1)
4.4
OpenGL
3.3
1.2
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
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-
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5.0
Shader Model
4.1
