FirePro M8900 and GeForce RTX 4090 - video card comparison

FirePro M8900

GeForce RTX 4090

Architecture

Terascale 2 (2009−2015)

Ada Lovelace

GPU code name

Blackcomb XT

AD102-300-A1

Market segment

Mobile workstation

Desktop

Release date

April 2011

September 2022

Bus support

n/a

-

Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

None

1x 16-pin

Boost clock speed

-

2520 MHz

Core clock speed

680 MHz

2235 MHz

Floating-point performance

1,305.6 gflops

-

Manufacturing process technology

40 nm

5 nm

Number of transistors

1,700 million

76,300 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

960

16384

Power consumption (TDP)

75 Watt

450 Watt

Texture fill rate

32.64

1,290

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR6X

Maximum RAM amount

2 GB

24 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

384 Bit

Memory clock speed

900 MHz

21000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

115 GB/s

1,008 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

-

8.9

OpenCL

1.2

3.0

OpenGL

4.4

4.6

Shader Model

5.0

6.6

Vulkan

N/A

1.3