AMD Radeon HD 6520G vs AMD FirePro M8900

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 6520G and AMD FirePro M8900 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, API support, Memory, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: Geekbench - OpenCL, 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), PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, 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 6520G

AMD FirePro M8900

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6520G

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 month(s) later
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 32 nm vs 40 nm

Launch date	15 June 2011 vs 12 April 2011
Manufacturing process technology	32 nm vs 40 nm

Reasons to consider the AMD FirePro M8900

Around 70% higher core clock speed: 680 MHz vs 400 MHz
3x more pipelines: 960 vs 320
25.1x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 18738 vs 748

Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed	680 MHz vs 400 MHz
Pipelines	960 vs 320
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL	18738 vs 748

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 6520G
GPU 2: AMD FirePro M8900

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

748

18738

Name	AMD Radeon HD 6520G	AMD FirePro M8900
Geekbench - OpenCL	748	18738
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	644
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	644
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	1577
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	1577
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3134
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3134
PassMark - G2D Mark	81
PassMark - G3D Mark	300
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 6520G	AMD FirePro M8900
Essentials
Architecture	Terascale 2	TeraScale 2
Code name	Llano	Blackcomb
Launch date	15 June 2011	12 April 2011
Place in performance rating	1414	1415
Type	Laptop	Mobile workstation
Technical info
Core clock speed	400 MHz	680 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	32 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	320	960
Transistor count	1000 Million	1,700 million
Floating-point performance		1,305.6 gflops
Texture fill rate		32.6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		75 Watt
API support
DirectX	11	11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL		4.4
Memory
Shared memory	1	0
Maximum RAM amount		2 GB
Memory bandwidth		115 GB / s
Memory bus width		256 Bit
Memory clock speed		3600 MHz
Memory type		GDDR5
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors		No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Bus support		n / a
Form factor		MXM-B
Interface		MXM-B (3.0)
Laptop size		large
Supplementary power connectors		None