FirePro M8900 and Quadro FX 1800M - video card comparison
FirePro M8900
Quadro FX 1800M
Architecture
Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
GT2xx (2009−2012)
GPU code name
Blackcomb XT
GT215
Market segment
Mobile workstation
Mobile workstation
Release date
April 2011
February 2010
Bus support
n/a
-
Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
MXM-A (3.0)
Supplementary power connectors
None
-
Core clock speed
680 MHz
560 MHz
Floating-point performance
1,305.6 gflops
162 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
1,700 million
727 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
960
72
Power consumption (TDP)
75 Watt
45 Watt
Texture fill rate
32.64
13.46
Memory type
GDDR5
DDR3, GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
1 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
900 MHz
1100 MHz
Memory bandwidth
115 GB/s
35.2 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
11.1 (10_1)
CUDA
-
+
OpenCL
1.2
1.1
OpenGL
4.4
3.3
Shader Model
5.0
4.1
Vulkan
N/A
N/A