FirePro M8900 and Quadro RTX 3000 Mobile Refresh - video card comparison
FirePro M8900
Quadro RTX 3000 Mobile Refresh
Architecture
Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
Turing (2018−2021)
GPU code name
Blackcomb XT
TU106
Market segment
Mobile workstation
Mobile workstation
Release date
April 2011
May 2019
Bus support
n/a
-
Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
-
Boost clock speed
-
1380 MHz
Core clock speed
680 MHz
-
Floating-point performance
1,305.6 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
12 nm
Number of transistors
1,700 million
10,800 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
960
1920
Power consumption (TDP)
75 Watt
80 Watt
Texture fill rate
32.64
165.6
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
6 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
192 Bit
Memory clock speed
900 MHz
14 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
115 GB/s
336.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
CUDA
-
7.5
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.4
4.6
Shader Model
5.0
6.5
Vulkan
N/A
1.2