FirePro M8900 vs Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 2000/3000)

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General info

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in performance ranking617not rated
Place by popularity36not in top-100
ArchitectureVega (2017−2021)Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code nameVega Raven RidgeBlackcomb XT
Market segmentLaptopMobile workstation
Release date26 October 2017 (6 years old)12 April 2011 (12 years old)
Current priceno data$267

Technical specs

General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores512960
Core clock speedno data680 MHz
Boost clock speed1200 MHzno data
Number of transistorsno data1,700 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)15 Watt75 Watt
Texture fill rateno data32.64
Floating-point performanceno data1,305.6 gflops

Size and compatibility

Information on Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 2000/3000) and FirePro M8900 compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For notebook video cards it's notebook size, connection slot and bus, if the video card is inserted into a slot instead of being soldered to the notebook motherboard.

Laptop sizeno datalarge
Bus supportno datan/a
Interfaceno dataMXM-B (3.0)
Form factorno dataMXM-B
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

Memory

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeno dataGDDR5
Maximum RAM amountno data2 GB
Memory bus widthno data256 Bit
Memory clock speedno data900 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data115 GB/s
Shared memory--

Video outputs and ports

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectorsno dataNo outputs

API support

List of supported graphics and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12_111.2 (11_0)
Shader Modelno data5.0
OpenGLno data4.4
OpenCLno data1.2
Vulkanno dataN/A

Advantages and disadvantages


Recency 26 October 2017 12 April 2011
Chip lithography 14 nm 40 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 15 Watt 75 Watt

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 2000/3000) and FirePro M8900. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 2000/3000) is a notebook graphics card while FirePro M8900 is a mobile workstation one.


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AMD Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 2000/3000)
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