ATI Mobility Radeon X1900 vs AMD FirePro M8900
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM Mobility Radeon X1900 and 2GB VRAM FirePro M8900 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD FirePro M8900 's Advantages
Released 4 years and 3 months late
More VRAM (2GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (115.2GB/s vs 30.08GB/s)
960 additional rendering cores
Score
Graphics Card
Jan 2007
Release Date
Apr 2011
M6x
Generation
FirePro Mobile
Mobile
Type
Mobile
MXM-III
Bus Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
Clock Speeds
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470 MHz
Memory Clock
900 MHz
Memory
256MB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
30.08GB/s
Bandwidth
115.2GB/s
Render Config
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Compute Units
12
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-
-
-
Shading Units
960
12
TMUs
48
12
ROPs
32
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L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
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L2 Cache
512 KB
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-
-
Theoretical Performance
4.800 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
21.76 GPixel/s
4.800 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
32.64 GTexel/s
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-
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FP32 (float)
1306 GFLOPS
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-
-
Board Design
Unknown
TDP
75W
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Portable Device Dependent
Outputs
No outputs
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Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
M68
GPU Name
Blackcomb
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GPU Variant
Blackcomb XT GL
Ultra-Threaded SE
Architecture
TeraScale 2
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
80 nm
Process Size
40 nm
0.312 billion
Transistors
1.7 billion
230 mm²
Die Size
212 mm²
Graphics Features
9.0c (9_3)
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
2.1
OpenGL
4.4
N/A
OpenCL
1.2
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
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3.0
Shader Model
5.0
