AMD FirePro M8900 vs AMD Radeon HD 6550M

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We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FirePro M8900 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6550M 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 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (115.2GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

560 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 6550M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (26W vs 75W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro M8900 +172%

1.306 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6550M

0.48 TFLOPS

FirePro M8900

VS

Radeon HD 6550M

Graphics Card

Apr 2011

Release Date

Nov 2010

FirePro Mobile

Generation

Vancouver

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

MXM-II

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

115.2GB/s

Bandwidth

28.80GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

12

Compute Units

5

960

Shading Units

400

48

TMUs

20

32

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

21.76 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.800 GPixel/s

32.64 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

12.00 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1306 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

480.0 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Blackcomb

GPU Name

Lexington

Blackcomb XT GL

GPU Variant

-

TeraScale 2

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

2.154 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

334 mm²

Board Design

75W

TDP

26W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.4

OpenGL

4.4

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

5.0

Shader Model

5.0

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