AMD Radeon E9550 MXM vs AMD FirePro M8900
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon E9550 MXM and 2GB VRAM FirePro M8900 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD Radeon E9550 MXM 's Advantages
Released 5 years and 5 months late
Boost Clock1266MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.0GB/s vs 115.2GB/s)
1344 additional rendering cores
AMD FirePro M8900 's Advantages
Lower TDP (75W vs 95W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon E9550 MXM
+346%
5.834 TFLOPS
FirePro M8900
1.306 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Sep 2016
Release Date
Apr 2011
Embedded
Generation
FirePro Mobile
Mobile
Type
Mobile
MXM-B (3.0)
Bus Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
Clock Speeds
1120 MHz
Base Clock
-
1266 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1250 MHz
Memory Clock
900 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
160.0GB/s
Bandwidth
115.2GB/s
Render Config
36
Compute Units
12
-
-
-
2304
Shading Units
960
144
TMUs
48
32
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
2 MB
L2 Cache
512 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
40.51 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
21.76 GPixel/s
182.3 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
32.64 GTexel/s
5.834 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
5.834 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1306 GFLOPS
364.6 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
95W
TDP
75W
-
-
-
1x HDMI 2.0b
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Ellesmere
GPU Name
Blackcomb
Ellesmere XT
GPU Variant
Blackcomb XT GL
GCN 4.0
Architecture
TeraScale 2
GlobalFoundries
Foundry
TSMC
14 nm
Process Size
40 nm
5.7 billion
Transistors
1.7 billion
232 mm²
Die Size
212 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_0)
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.4
2.1
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
Vulkan
N/A
-
-
-
6.4
Shader Model
5.0
