AMD Radeon Pro 580 vs AMD FirePro M8900

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We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon Pro 580 and 2GB VRAM FirePro M8900 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon Pro 580 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock1200MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (217.0GB/s vs 115.2GB/s)

1344 additional rendering cores

AMD FirePro M8900 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 185W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Pro 580 +323%

5.53 TFLOPS

FirePro M8900

1.306 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro 580

VS

FirePro M8900

Graphics Card

Jun 2017

Release Date

Apr 2011

Radeon Pro Mac

Generation

FirePro Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

1100 MHz

Base Clock

-

1200 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1695 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

217.0GB/s

Bandwidth

115.2GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

36

Compute Units

12

2304

Shading Units

960

144

TMUs

48

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

38.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

21.76 GPixel/s

172.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

32.64 GTexel/s

5.530 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

5.530 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1306 GFLOPS

345.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Ellesmere

GPU Name

Blackcomb

Ellesmere XTA (216-0886220)

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

Board Design

185W

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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