NVIDIA GeForce GT 630M vs AMD FirePro M8900

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GT 630M 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, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, 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), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 630M

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 11 month(s) later
  • 2.3x lower typical power consumption: 33 Watt vs 75 Watt
Launch date 22 March 2012 vs 12 April 2011
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 33 Watt vs 75 Watt

Reasons to consider the AMD FirePro M8900

  • 10x more pipelines: 960 vs 96
  • 5.2x better floating-point performance: 1,305.6 gflops vs 253.4 gflops
  • 2x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 1 GB
  • 2x more memory clock speed: 3600 MHz vs 1800 MHz
  • 7.8x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 18738 vs 2407
  • 2.1x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s): 10.529 vs 5.055
  • 3.5x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s): 760.858 vs 215.004
  • Around 82% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s): 1.158 vs 0.635
  • 2.5x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s): 26.149 vs 10.393
  • 5.5x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s): 108.525 vs 19.903
Specifications (specs)
Pipelines 960 vs 96
Floating-point performance 1,305.6 gflops vs 253.4 gflops
Maximum memory size 2 GB vs 1 GB
Memory clock speed 3600 MHz vs 1800 MHz
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL 18738 vs 2407
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 10.529 vs 5.055
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 760.858 vs 215.004
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 1.158 vs 0.635
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 26.149 vs 10.393
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 108.525 vs 19.903

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GT 630M
GPU 2: AMD FirePro M8900

Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
2407
18738
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)
GPU 1
GPU 2
5.055
10.529
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)
GPU 1
GPU 2
215.004
760.858
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)
GPU 1
GPU 2
0.635
1.158
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)
GPU 1
GPU 2
10.393
26.149
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)
GPU 1
GPU 2
19.903
108.525
Name NVIDIA GeForce GT 630M AMD FirePro M8900
PassMark - G3D Mark 536
PassMark - G2D Mark 151
Geekbench - OpenCL 2407 18738
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 5.055 10.529
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 215.004 760.858
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 0.635 1.158
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 10.393 26.149
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 19.903 108.525
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 967
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 2766
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3359
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 967
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 2766
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3359
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 0

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GT 630M AMD FirePro M8900

Essentials

Architecture Fermi TeraScale 2
Code name GF108 Blackcomb
Launch date 22 March 2012 12 April 2011
Place in performance rating 1407 1408
Type Laptop Mobile workstation

Technical info

CUDA cores 96
Floating-point performance 253.4 gflops 1,305.6 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 40 nm
Pipelines 96 960
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 33 Watt 75 Watt
Transistor count 585 million 1,700 million
Core clock speed 680 MHz
Texture fill rate 32.6 GTexel / s

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs No outputs
HDCP
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution Up to 2048x1536

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

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

API support

DirectX 12.0 (11_0) 11.2 (11_0)
DirectX 11.2 12 API
OpenCL 1.1
OpenGL 4.5 4.4

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 2 GB
Memory clock speed 1800 MHz 3600 MHz
Memory type DDR3\GDDR5 GDDR5
Shared memory 0 0
Memory bandwidth 115 GB / s
Memory bus width 256 Bit

Technologies

3D Blu-Ray
3D Vision
3D Vision / 3DTV Play
CUDA
DirectCompute
DirectX 11 DirectX 11
Optimus