FirePro M8900 and Quadro FX 1500M - video card comparison
FirePro M8900
Quadro FX 1500M
Architecture
Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
G7x (2005−2007)
GPU code name
Blackcomb XT
G71GLM
Market segment
Mobile workstation
Mobile workstation
Release date
April 2011
April 2006
Bus support
n/a
-
Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
MXM-II
Supplementary power connectors
None
-
Boost clock speed
-
375 MHz
Core clock speed
680 MHz
7 MHz
Floating-point performance
1,305.6 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
90 nm
Number of transistors
1,700 million
278 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
960
27
Power consumption (TDP)
75 Watt
20 Watt
Texture fill rate
32.64
9.000
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
512 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
900 MHz
1000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
115 GB/s
32 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
9.0c (9_3)
OpenCL
1.2
N/A
OpenGL
4.4
2.1
Shader Model
5.0
3.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A