FirePro M8900 and Quadro K4000M - video card comparison
FirePro M8900
Quadro K4000M
Architecture
Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
Kepler (2012−2018)
GPU code name
Blackcomb XT
N14E-Q3
Market segment
Mobile workstation
Mobile workstation
Release date
April 2011
June 2012
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
1,154 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
1,700 million
3,540 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
960
960
Power consumption (TDP)
75 Watt
100 Watt
Texture fill rate
32.64
48.08
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
900 MHz
2800 MHz
Memory bandwidth
115 GB/s
89.6 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
12 (11_0)
CUDA
-
+
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.4
4.6
Shader Model
5.0
5.1
Vulkan
N/A
+
Optimus
-
+