
FirePro M8900 and Quadro P3000 Max-Q - video card comparison
FirePro M8900
Quadro P3000 Max-Q
Architecture
Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
Pascal (2016−2021)
GPU code name
Blackcomb XT
N17E-Q1 Max-Q
Market segment
Mobile workstation
Mobile workstation
Release date
April 2011
September 2017
Bus support
n/a
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Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
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Supplementary power connectors
None
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Boost clock speed
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1240 MHz
Core clock speed
680 MHz
1075 MHz
Floating-point performance
1,305.6 gflops
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Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
16 nm
Number of transistors
1,700 million
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Pipelines / CUDA cores
960
1280
Power consumption (TDP)
75 Watt
60 Watt
Texture fill rate
32.64
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Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
16 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
192 Bit
Memory clock speed
900 MHz
7008 MHz
Memory bandwidth
115 GB/s
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Shared memory
-
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Display Connectors
No outputs
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DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
12_1
OpenCL
1.2
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OpenGL
4.4
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Shader Model
5.0
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Vulkan
N/A
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Optimus
-
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