AMD FirePro M8900 vs AMD Radeon E9550 MXM
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FirePro M8900 and 8GB VRAM Radeon E9550 MXM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD FirePro M8900 's Advantages
Lower TDP (75W vs 95W)
AMD Radeon E9550 MXM 's Advantages
Released 5 years and 5 months late
Boost Clock1266MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.0GB/s vs 115.2GB/s)
1344 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FirePro M8900
1.306 TFLOPS
Radeon E9550 MXM
+346%
5.834 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Apr 2011
Release Date
Sep 2016
FirePro Mobile
Generation
Embedded
Mobile
Type
Mobile
MXM-B (3.0)
Bus Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1120 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1266 MHz
900 MHz
Memory Clock
1250 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
115.2GB/s
Bandwidth
160.0GB/s
Render Config
12
Compute Units
36
-
-
-
960
Shading Units
2304
48
TMUs
144
32
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
8 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
512 KB
L2 Cache
2 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
21.76 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
40.51 GPixel/s
32.64 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
182.3 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
5.834 TFLOPS
1306 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
5.834 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
364.6 GFLOPS
Board Design
75W
TDP
95W
-
-
-
No outputs
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.0b
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Blackcomb
GPU Name
Ellesmere
Blackcomb XT GL
GPU Variant
Ellesmere XT
TeraScale 2
Architecture
GCN 4.0
TSMC
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
40 nm
Process Size
14 nm
1.7 billion
Transistors
5.7 billion
212 mm²
Die Size
232 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
