FirePro M8900 vs Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 2000/3000)

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking653not rated
Place by popularity45not in top-100
Power efficiency21.67no data
ArchitectureVega (2017−2020)TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code nameVega Raven RidgeBlackcomb
Market segmentLaptopMobile workstation
Release date26 October 2017 (7 years ago)12 April 2011 (13 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 cores512960
Core clock speedno data680 MHz
Boost clock speed1200 MHzno data
Number of transistorsno data1,700 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)15 Watt75 Watt
Texture fill rateno data32.64
Floating-point processing powerno data1.306 TFLOPS
ROPsno data32
TMUsno data48

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 sizeno datalarge
Bus supportno datan/a
Interfaceno dataMXM-B (3.0)
Form factorno dataMXM-B
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

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 typeno dataGDDR5
Maximum RAM amountno data2 GB
Memory bus widthno data256 Bit
Memory clock speedno data900 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data115 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 dataNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX12_111.2 (11_0)
Shader Modelno data5.0
OpenGLno data4.4
OpenCLno data1.2
Vulkan-N/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 26 October 2017 12 April 2011
Chip lithography 14 nm 40 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 15 Watt 75 Watt

RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 2000/3000) has an age advantage of 6 years, a 185.7% more advanced lithography process, and 400% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 2000/3000) and FirePro M8900. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 2000/3000) is a notebook graphics card while FirePro M8900 is a mobile workstation one.


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AMD Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 2000/3000)
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