ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5145 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 rated1255
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data1.83
ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)TeraScale (2005−2013)
GPU code nameBlackcombM92
Market segmentMobile workstationLaptop
Release date12 April 2011 (13 years ago)7 January 2010 (14 years 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 cores96080
Core clock speed680 MHz720 MHz
Number of transistors1,700 million242 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm55 nm
Power consumption (TDP)75 Watt15 Watt
Texture fill rate32.645.760
Floating-point processing power1.306 TFLOPS0.1152 TFLOPS
ROPs324
TMUs488

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)PCIe 2.0 x16
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 typeGDDR5GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount2 GB1 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed900 MHz900 MHz
Memory bandwidth115 GB/s14.4 GB/s
Shared memory--

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 outputsNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.2 (11_0)10.1 (10_1)
Shader Model5.04.1
OpenGL4.43.3
OpenCL1.21.1
VulkanN/AN/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 12 April 2011 7 January 2010
Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 1 GB
Chip lithography 40 nm 55 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 75 Watt 15 Watt

FirePro M8900 has an age advantage of 1 year, a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 37.5% more advanced lithography process.

ATI Mobility HD 5145, on the other hand, has 400% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between FirePro M8900 and Mobility Radeon HD 5145. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that FirePro M8900 is a mobile workstation card while Mobility Radeon HD 5145 is a mobile workstation one.


Should you still have questions concerning choice between the reviewed GPUs, ask them in Comments section, and we shall answer.

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