FirePro M8900 and GeForce 940MX - video card comparison
FirePro M8900
GeForce 940MX
Architecture
Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
Maxwell (2014−2018)
GPU code name
Blackcomb XT
N16S-GTR-B/S
Market segment
Mobile workstation
Laptop
Release date
April 2011
March 2016
Bus support
n/a
PCI Express 3.0
Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
PCIe 3.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
Boost clock speed
-
1242 MHz
Core clock speed
680 MHz
1122 MHz
Floating-point performance
1,305.6 gflops
762.6 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
1,700 million
1,870 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
960
384
Power consumption (TDP)
75 Watt
23 Watt
Texture fill rate
32.64
23.83
Memory type
GDDR5
DDR3, GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
900 MHz
4000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
115 GB/s
40.1 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
12 (11_0)
CUDA
-
+
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.4
4.5
Shader Model
5.0
5.1
Vulkan
N/A
1.1
GameWorks
-
+
GPU Boost
-
2.0
Optimus
-
+