NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M vs AMD FirePro M8900

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M AMD FirePro M8900

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960M and 2GB VRAM FirePro M8900 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock1176MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

AMD FirePro M8900 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (115.2GB/s vs 80.19GB/s)

320 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 960M +15%

1.505 TFLOPS

FirePro M8900

1.306 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960M

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FirePro M8900

Graphics Card

Mar 2015

Release Date

Apr 2011

GeForce 900M

Generation

FirePro Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

1097 MHz

Base Clock

-

1176 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1253 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

80.19GB/s

Bandwidth

115.2GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

12

640

Shading Units

960

40

TMUs

48

16

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

18.82 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

21.76 GPixel/s

47.04 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

32.64 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1.505 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1306 GFLOPS

47.04 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GM107

GPU Name

Blackcomb

N16P-GX-A1

GPU Variant

Blackcomb XT GL

Maxwell

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

1.87 billion

Transistors

1.7 billion

148 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Board Design

75W

TDP

75W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

5.0

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.0

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