FirePro M8900 and Radeon R5 Graphics - video card comparison
FirePro M8900
Radeon R5 Graphics
Architecture
Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
GPU code name
Blackcomb XT
Spectre SL
Market segment
Mobile workstation
Desktop
Release date
April 2011
September 2014
Bus support
n/a
-
Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
IGP
Supplementary power connectors
None
-
Boost clock speed
-
720 MHz
Core clock speed
680 MHz
497 MHz
Floating-point performance
1,305.6 gflops
388.1 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
1,700 million
2,410 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
960
256
Power consumption (TDP)
75 Watt
15 Watt
Texture fill rate
32.64
7.952
Memory type
GDDR5
System Shared
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
System Shared
Memory bus width
256 Bit
System Shared
Memory clock speed
900 MHz
System Shared
Memory bandwidth
115 GB/s
-
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
12 (12_0)
OpenCL
1.2
2.0
OpenGL
4.4
4.6
Shader Model
5.0
6.0
Vulkan
N/A
1.2.131