Arc Graphics 64EU Mobile vs FirePro M8900

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)Xe-LPG (2023)
GPU code nameBlackcombMeteor Lake GT1
Market segmentMobile workstationDesktop
Release date12 April 2011 (13 years ago)14 December 2023 (less than a year ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores960512
Core clock speed680 MHz300 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1750 MHz
Number of transistors1,700 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology40 nm10 nm
Power consumption (TDP)75 Watt65 Watt
Texture fill rate32.6456.00
Floating-point processing power1.306 TFLOPS1.792 TFLOPS
ROPs3216
TMUs4832

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Laptop sizelargeno data
Bus supportn/ano data
InterfaceMXM-B (3.0)Ring Bus
Form factorMXM-Bno data
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno data

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR5System Shared
Maximum RAM amount2 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width256 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed900 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth115 GB/sno data
Shared memory-no data

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display ConnectorsNo outputsPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX11.2 (11_0)12 (12_1)
Shader Model5.06.6
OpenGL4.44.6
OpenCL1.23.0
VulkanN/A1.3

Pros & cons summary


Recency 12 April 2011 14 December 2023
Chip lithography 40 nm 10 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 75 Watt 65 Watt

Arc Graphics 64EU Mobile has an age advantage of 12 years, a 300% more advanced lithography process, and 15.4% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between FirePro M8900 and Arc Graphics 64EU Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that FirePro M8900 is a mobile workstation card while Arc Graphics 64EU Mobile is a desktop one.


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