AMD FirePro M8900 vs AMD Radeon E9172 MXM
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FirePro M8900 and 2GB VRAM Radeon E9172 MXM 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 48.00GB/s)
448 additional rendering cores
AMD Radeon E9172 MXM 's Advantages
Released 6 years and 6 months late
Boost Clock1219MHz
Lower TDP (35W vs 75W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FirePro M8900
+4%
1.306 TFLOPS
Radeon E9172 MXM
1.248 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Apr 2011
Release Date
Oct 2017
FirePro Mobile
Generation
Embedded
Mobile
Type
Mobile
MXM-B (3.0)
Bus Interface
MXM-A (3.0)
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1124 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1219 MHz
900 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
64bit
115.2GB/s
Bandwidth
48.00GB/s
Render Config
12
Compute Units
8
-
-
-
960
Shading Units
512
48
TMUs
32
32
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
8 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
512 KB
L2 Cache
256 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
21.76 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
19.50 GPixel/s
32.64 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
39.01 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
1248 GFLOPS
1306 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1248 GFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
78.02 GFLOPS
Board Design
75W
TDP
35W
-
-
-
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Blackcomb
GPU Name
Lexa
Blackcomb XT GL
GPU Variant
E9170
TeraScale 2
Architecture
GCN 4.0
TSMC
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
40 nm
Process Size
14 nm
1.7 billion
Transistors
2.2 billion
212 mm²
Die Size
103 mm²
Graphics Features
11.2 (11_0)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
4.4
OpenGL
4.6
1.2
OpenCL
2.1
N/A
Vulkan
1.2
-
-
-
5.0
Shader Model
6.4
