FirePro M8900 and Arc Pro A40 - video card comparison
FirePro M8900
Arc Pro A40
Architecture
Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
Generation 12.7 (2022)
GPU code name
Blackcomb XT
DG2-128
Market segment
Mobile workstation
Desktop
Release date
April 2011
August 2022
Bus support
n/a
-
Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
PCIe 4.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
Boost clock speed
-
1700 MHz
Core clock speed
680 MHz
-
Floating-point performance
1,305.6 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
6 nm
Number of transistors
1,700 million
7,200 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
960
1024
Power consumption (TDP)
75 Watt
50 Watt
Texture fill rate
32.64
108.8
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
6 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
96 Bit
Memory clock speed
900 MHz
16 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
115 GB/s
192.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
4x mini-DisplayPort 2.0
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenCL
1.2
3.0
OpenGL
4.4
4.6
Shader Model
5.0
6.6
Vulkan
N/A
1.3