FirePro M8900 and Quadro FX 1800 - video card comparison

FirePro M8900

Quadro FX 1800

Architecture

Terascale 2 (2009−2015)

Tesla (2006−2010)

GPU code name

Blackcomb XT

G94

Market segment

Mobile workstation

Workstation

Release date

April 2011

March 2009

Bus support

n/a

-

Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

PCIe 2.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

None

None

Core clock speed

680 MHz

550 MHz

Floating-point performance

1,305.6 gflops

176 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

40 nm

65 nm

Number of transistors

1,700 million

505 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

960

64

Power consumption (TDP)

75 Watt

59 Watt

Texture fill rate

32.64

17.60

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR3

Maximum RAM amount

2 GB

768 MB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

192 Bit

Memory clock speed

900 MHz

1600 MHz

Memory bandwidth

115 GB/s

38.4 GB/s

Shared memory

-

-

Display Connectors

No outputs

1x DVI, 2x DisplayPort

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