AMD FirePro M8900 vs NVIDIA RTX A2000 Max-Q
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FirePro M8900 and 4GB VRAM RTX A2000 Max Q 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)
NVIDIA RTX A2000 Max-Q 's Advantages
Released 10 years late
Boost Clock1207MHz
More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (176.0GB/s vs 115.2GB/s)
1600 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FirePro M8900
1.306 TFLOPS
RTX A2000 Max Q
+373%
6.18 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Apr 2011
Release Date
Apr 2021
FirePro Mobile
Generation
Ampere-MW
Mobile
Type
Mobile
MXM-B (3.0)
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
682 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1207 MHz
900 MHz
Memory Clock
1375 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
115.2GB/s
Bandwidth
176.0GB/s
Render Config
12
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
20
960
Shading Units
2560
48
TMUs
80
32
ROPs
48
-
Tensor Cores
80
-
RT Cores
20
8 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
512 KB
L2 Cache
2 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
21.76 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
57.94 GPixel/s
32.64 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
96.56 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
6.180 TFLOPS
1306 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
6.180 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
96.56 GFLOPS
Board Design
75W
TDP
95W
-
-
-
No outputs
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Blackcomb
GPU Name
GA107
Blackcomb XT GL
GPU Variant
-
TeraScale 2
Architecture
Ampere
TSMC
Foundry
Samsung
40 nm
Process Size
8 nm
1.7 billion
Transistors
8.7 billion
212 mm²
Die Size
200 mm²
Graphics Features
11.2 (11_0)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.4
OpenGL
4.6
1.2
OpenCL
3.0
N/A
Vulkan
1.3
-
CUDA
8.6
5.0
Shader Model
6.8
