AMD Radeon HD 6230 vs AMD FirePro M8900

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 6230 and AMD FirePro M8900 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: 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), 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).

AMD Radeon HD 6230

AMD FirePro M8900

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6230

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 month(s) later
3.9x lower typical power consumption: 19 Watt vs 75 Watt

Launch date	2 July 2011 vs 12 April 2011
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	19 Watt vs 75 Watt

Reasons to consider the AMD FirePro M8900

Around 5% higher core clock speed: 680 MHz vs 650 MHz
6.3x more texture fill rate: 32.6 GTexel / s vs 5.2 GTexel / s
12x more pipelines: 960 vs 80
12.6x better floating-point performance: 1,305.6 gflops vs 104 gflops
4x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 512 MB
3.6x more memory clock speed: 3600 MHz vs 1000 MHz

Core clock speed	680 MHz vs 650 MHz
Texture fill rate	32.6 GTexel / s vs 5.2 GTexel / s
Pipelines	960 vs 80
Floating-point performance	1,305.6 gflops vs 104 gflops
Maximum memory size	2 GB vs 512 MB
Memory clock speed	3600 MHz vs 1000 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 6230
GPU 2: AMD FirePro M8900

Name	AMD Radeon HD 6230	AMD FirePro M8900
PassMark - G3D Mark	179
PassMark - G2D Mark	254
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	252
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	252
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	744
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	744
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	1293
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	1293
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

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon HD 6230	AMD FirePro M8900
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale 2	TeraScale 2
Code name	Park	Blackcomb
Launch date	2 July 2011	12 April 2011
Place in performance rating	1391	1392
Type	Desktop	Mobile workstation
Technical info
Core clock speed	650 MHz	680 MHz
Floating-point performance	104 gflops	1,305.6 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	80	960
Texture fill rate	5.2 GTexel / s	32.6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	19 Watt	75 Watt
Transistor count	292 million	1,700 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	MXM-B (3.0)
Length	168 mm
Supplementary power connectors	None	None
Bus support		n / a
Form factor		MXM-B
Laptop size		large
API support
DirectX	11.2 (11_0)	11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL	4.4	4.4
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB	2 GB
Memory bandwidth	8 GB / s	115 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	1000 MHz	3600 MHz
Memory type	DDR2	GDDR5
Shared memory		0