AMD FirePro M8900 vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5730

Comparative analysis of AMD FirePro M8900 and ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5730 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD FirePro M8900

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 3 month(s) later
  • Around 5% higher core clock speed: 680 MHz vs 650 MHz
  • 2.5x more texture fill rate: 32.6 GTexel / s vs 13 GTexel / s
  • 2.4x more pipelines: 960 vs 400
  • 2.5x better floating-point performance: 1,305.6 gflops vs 520.0 gflops
  • 2x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 1 GB
  • 2.3x more memory clock speed: 3600 MHz vs 1600 MHz
Launch date 12 April 2011 vs 7 January 2010
Core clock speed 680 MHz vs 650 MHz
Texture fill rate 32.6 GTexel / s vs 13 GTexel / s
Pipelines 960 vs 400
Floating-point performance 1,305.6 gflops vs 520.0 gflops
Maximum memory size 2 GB vs 1 GB
Memory clock speed 3600 MHz vs 1600 MHz

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5730

  • 2.9x lower typical power consumption: 26 Watt vs 75 Watt
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 26 Watt vs 75 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD FirePro M8900
GPU 2: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5730

Name AMD FirePro M8900 ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5730
Geekbench - OpenCL 18738
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 10.529
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 760.858
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 1.158
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 26.149
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 108.525
PassMark - G3D Mark 507
PassMark - G2D Mark 150
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 273
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 273

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD FirePro M8900 ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5730

Essentials

Architecture TeraScale 2 TeraScale 2
Code name Blackcomb Madison
Launch date 12 April 2011 7 January 2010
Place in performance rating 1431 1434
Type Mobile workstation Laptop

Technical info

Core clock speed 680 MHz 650 MHz
Floating-point performance 1,305.6 gflops 520.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 40 nm
Pipelines 960 400
Texture fill rate 32.6 GTexel / s 13 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 75 Watt 26 Watt
Transistor count 1,700 million 627 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs No outputs

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Bus support n / a
Form factor MXM-B
Interface MXM-B (3.0) PCIe 2.0 x16
Laptop size large medium sized
Supplementary power connectors None

API support

DirectX 11.2 (11_0) 11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL 4.4 4.4

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 1 GB
Memory bandwidth 115 GB / s 25.6 GB / s
Memory bus width 256 Bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 3600 MHz 1600 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 DDR3, GDDR3
Shared memory 0 0