FirePro M8900 and NVS 5200M - video card comparison
FirePro M8900
NVS 5200M
Architecture
Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
Fermi (2010−2014)
GPU code name
Blackcomb XT
N13M-NS
Market segment
Mobile workstation
Mobile workstation
Release date
April 2011
June 2012
Bus support
n/a
-
Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
MXM
Supplementary power connectors
None
-
Core clock speed
680 MHz
625 MHz
Floating-point performance
1,305.6 gflops
258.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
1,700 million
585 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
960
96
Power consumption (TDP)
75 Watt
25 Watt
Texture fill rate
32.64
10.00
Memory type
GDDR5
DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
1 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
900 MHz
1800 MHz
Memory bandwidth
115 GB/s
14.4 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
12 (11_0)
CUDA
-
+
OpenCL
1.2
1.1
OpenGL
4.4
4.6
Shader Model
5.0
5.1
Vulkan
N/A
N/A
Optimus
-
+