FirePro M8900 and Quadro K500M - video card comparison

FirePro M8900

Quadro K500M

Architecture

Terascale 2 (2009−2015)

Kepler (2012−2018)

GPU code name

Blackcomb XT

N14M-Q1

Market segment

Mobile workstation

Mobile workstation

Release date

April 2011

June 2012

Bus support

n/a

-

Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

MXM-A (3.0)

Supplementary power connectors

None

-

Core clock speed

680 MHz

850 MHz

Floating-point performance

1,305.6 gflops

326.4 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

40 nm

28 nm

Number of transistors

1,700 million

1,270 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

960

192

Power consumption (TDP)

75 Watt

35 Watt

Texture fill rate

32.64

13.60

Memory type

GDDR5

DDR3 / GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

2 GB

2 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

64 Bit

Memory clock speed

900 MHz

1800 MHz

Memory bandwidth

115 GB/s

12.8 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

-

+