FirePro M8900 and Radeon 520 Mobile GDDR5 - video card comparison
FirePro M8900
Radeon 520 Mobile GDDR5
Architecture
Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GPU code name
Blackcomb XT
Banks
Market segment
Mobile workstation
Laptop
Release date
April 2011
April 2017
Bus support
n/a
-
Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
PCIe 3.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors
None
-
Core clock speed
680 MHz
1030 MHz
Floating-point performance
1,305.6 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
1,700 million
690 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
960
320
Power consumption (TDP)
75 Watt
50 Watt
Texture fill rate
32.64
20.60
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
900 MHz
4.5 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
115 GB/s
36 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
Portable Device Dependent
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
12 (11_1)
OpenCL
1.2
2.1 (1.2)
OpenGL
4.4
4.6
Shader Model
5.0
6.5 (5.1)
Vulkan
N/A
1.2.170