FirePro M8900 and Quadro FX 1700M - video card comparison
FirePro M8900
Quadro FX 1700M
Architecture
Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
G9x (2007−2010)
GPU code name
Blackcomb XT
NB9P-GLM
Market segment
Mobile workstation
Mobile workstation
Release date
April 2011
October 2008
Bus support
n/a
-
Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
MXM-II
Supplementary power connectors
None
-
Core clock speed
680 MHz
625 MHz
Floating-point performance
1,305.6 gflops
99.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
65 nm
Number of transistors
1,700 million
314 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
960
32
Power consumption (TDP)
75 Watt
50 Watt
Texture fill rate
32.64
10.00
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
256 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
900 MHz
800 MHz
Memory bandwidth
115 GB/s
25.6 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
11.1 (10_0)
CUDA
-
1.1
OpenCL
1.2
1.1
OpenGL
4.4
3.3
Shader Model
5.0
4.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A