NVIDIA GeForce 310M vs AMD FirePro M8900
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce 310M and 2GB VRAM FirePro M8900 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce 310M 's Advantages
Lower TDP (14W vs 75W)
AMD FirePro M8900 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 3 months late
More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (115.2GB/s vs 10.67GB/s)
944 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 310M
0.049 TFLOPS
FirePro M8900
+2565%
1.306 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jan 2010
Release Date
Apr 2011
GeForce 300M
Generation
FirePro Mobile
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
Clock Speeds
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-
-
-
-
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667 MHz
Memory Clock
900 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
2GB
DDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
64bit
Memory Bus
256bit
10.67GB/s
Bandwidth
115.2GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
12
2
SM Count
-
16
Shading Units
960
8
TMUs
48
4
ROPs
32
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-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
32 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
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-
-
Theoretical Performance
2.424 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
21.76 GPixel/s
4.848 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
32.64 GTexel/s
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-
-
48.96 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1306 GFLOPS
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-
-
Board Design
14W
TDP
75W
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-
-
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
-
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GT218
GPU Name
Blackcomb
N11M-GE1
GPU Variant
Blackcomb XT GL
Tesla 2.0
Architecture
TeraScale 2
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
40 nm
0.26 billion
Transistors
1.7 billion
57 mm²
Die Size
212 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_1)
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
3.3
OpenGL
4.4
1.1
OpenCL
1.2
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
1.2
CUDA
-
4.1
Shader Model
5.0
