FirePro M8900 and GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB - video card comparison
FirePro M8900
GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB
Architecture
Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
Ampere (2020−2022)
GPU code name
Blackcomb XT
GA106
Market segment
Mobile workstation
Desktop
Release date
April 2011
January 2022
Bus support
n/a
-
Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
PCIe 4.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors
None
1x 8-pin
Boost clock speed
-
1777 MHz
Core clock speed
680 MHz
-
Floating-point performance
1,305.6 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
8 nm
Number of transistors
1,700 million
12,000 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
960
2560
Power consumption (TDP)
75 Watt
130 Watt
Texture fill rate
32.64
142.2
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
8 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
900 MHz
14 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
115 GB/s
224.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI
-
+
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
CUDA
-
8.6
OpenCL
1.2
3.0
OpenGL
4.4
4.6
Shader Model
5.0
6.6
Vulkan
N/A
1.3