AMD FirePro M8900 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 415M

Comparative analysis of AMD FirePro M8900 and NVIDIA GeForce GT 415M videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. 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 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

AMD FirePro M8900

NVIDIA GeForce GT 415M

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD FirePro M8900

Videocard is newer: launch date 7 month(s) later
10.9x more texture fill rate: 32.6 GTexel / s vs 3.0 billion / sec
20x more pipelines: 960 vs 48
13.6x better floating-point performance: 1,305.6 gflops vs 96 gflops
4x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 512 MB
4.5x more memory clock speed: 3600 MHz vs 800 MHz
25x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 18738 vs 751

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	12 April 2011 vs 3 September 2010
Texture fill rate	32.6 GTexel / s vs 3.0 billion / sec
Pipelines	960 vs 48
Floating-point performance	1,305.6 gflops vs 96 gflops
Maximum memory size	2 GB vs 512 MB
Memory clock speed	3600 MHz vs 800 MHz
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL	18738 vs 751

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 415M

Around 47% higher core clock speed: 1000 MHz vs 680 MHz
6.3x lower typical power consumption: 12 Watt vs 75 Watt

Core clock speed	1000 MHz vs 680 MHz
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	12 Watt vs 75 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD FirePro M8900
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GT 415M

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

18738

751

Name	AMD FirePro M8900	NVIDIA GeForce GT 415M
Geekbench - OpenCL	18738	751
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		286
PassMark - G2D Mark		221
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		442
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		442
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		1158
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		1158
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		1570
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		1570

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD FirePro M8900	NVIDIA GeForce GT 415M
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale 2	Fermi
Code name	Blackcomb	GF108
Launch date	12 April 2011	3 September 2010
Place in performance rating	1392	1393
Type	Mobile workstation	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	680 MHz	1000 MHz
Floating-point performance	1,305.6 gflops	96 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	960	48
Texture fill rate	32.6 GTexel / s	3.0 billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	75 Watt	12 Watt
Transistor count	1,700 million	585 million
CUDA cores		48
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)	12.0 (11_0)
OpenGL	4.4	4.6
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	512 MB
Memory bandwidth	115 GB / s	25.6 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	3600 MHz	800 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	(G)DDR3
Shared memory	0	0
Technologies
3D Blu-Ray
CUDA
DirectCompute
DirectX 11		DirectX 11
Optimus