AMD FirePro M8900 vs AMD Radeon R7 A260
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FirePro M8900 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon R7 A260 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 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (115.2GB/s vs 57.60GB/s)
576 additional rendering cores
AMD Radeon R7 A260 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 9 months late
Boost Clock980MHz
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FirePro M8900
+73%
1.306 TFLOPS
Radeon R7 A260
0.752 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Apr 2011
Release Date
Jan 2014
FirePro Mobile
Generation
All-In-One
Mobile
Type
Mobile
MXM-B (3.0)
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
900 MHz
-
Boost Clock
980 MHz
900 MHz
Memory Clock
900 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
115.2GB/s
Bandwidth
57.60GB/s
Render Config
12
Compute Units
6
-
-
-
960
Shading Units
384
48
TMUs
24
32
ROPs
8
-
-
-
-
-
-
8 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
512 KB
L2 Cache
256 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
21.76 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
7.840 GPixel/s
32.64 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
23.52 GTexel/s
-
-
-
1306 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
752.6 GFLOPS
-
-
-
Board Design
75W
TDP
Unknown
-
-
-
No outputs
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
None
Power Connectors
-
Graphics Processor
Blackcomb
GPU Name
Topaz
Blackcomb XT GL
GPU Variant
Topaz XT
(216-0858020)
TeraScale 2
Architecture
GCN 3.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
28 nm
1.7 billion
Transistors
1.55 billion
212 mm²
Die Size
125 mm²
Graphics Features
11.2 (11_0)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
4.4
OpenGL
4.6
1.2
OpenCL
2.1
N/A
Vulkan
1.2.170
-
-
-
5.0
Shader Model
6.5
