AMD Radeon 550X Mobile vs AMD FirePro M8900

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AMD Radeon 550X Mobile AMD FirePro M8900

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon 550X Mobile and 2GB VRAM FirePro M8900 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon 550X Mobile 's Advantages

Released 7 years late

Boost Clock1287MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Lower TDP (50W vs 75W)

AMD FirePro M8900 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (115.2GB/s vs 48.00GB/s)

320 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon 550X Mobile +26%

1.647 TFLOPS

FirePro M8900

1.306 TFLOPS

Radeon 550X Mobile

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FirePro M8900

Graphics Card

Apr 2018

Release Date

Apr 2011

Mobility Radeon

Generation

FirePro Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

1100 MHz

Base Clock

-

1287 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

48.00GB/s

Bandwidth

115.2GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

10

Compute Units

12

640

Shading Units

960

40

TMUs

48

16

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

20.59 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

21.76 GPixel/s

51.48 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

32.64 GTexel/s

1.647 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1.647 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1306 GFLOPS

103.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Polaris 23

GPU Name

Blackcomb

Polaris 23 MXT

GPU Variant

Blackcomb XT GL

GCN 4.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

1.7 billion

103 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Board Design

50W

TDP

75W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

2.1

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

5.0

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