FirePro M8900 and Quadro FX 2800M - video card comparison
FirePro M8900
Quadro FX 2800M
Architecture
Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
G9x (2007−2010)
GPU code name
Blackcomb XT
NB10-GLM3
Market segment
Mobile workstation
Mobile workstation
Release date
April 2011
December 2009
Bus support
n/a
-
Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
MXM-B (3.0)
Supplementary power connectors
None
-
Core clock speed
680 MHz
600 MHz
Floating-point performance
1,305.6 gflops
288 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
55 nm
Number of transistors
1,700 million
754 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
960
96
Power consumption (TDP)
75 Watt
75 Watt
Texture fill rate
32.64
28.80
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
1 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
900 MHz
1000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
115 GB/s
64 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
11.1 (10_0)
CUDA
-
+
OpenCL
1.2
1.1
OpenGL
4.4
3.3
Shader Model
5.0
4.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A