FirePro M8900 and Quadro RTX 8000 - video card comparison

FirePro M8900

Quadro RTX 8000

Architecture

Terascale 2 (2009−2015)

Turing (2018−2021)

GPU code name

Blackcomb XT

TU102

Market segment

Mobile workstation

Workstation

Release date

April 2011

August 2018

Bus support

n/a

-

Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

PCIe 3.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

None

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Boost clock speed

-

1770 MHz

Core clock speed

680 MHz

1395 MHz

Floating-point performance

1,305.6 gflops

-

Manufacturing process technology

40 nm

12 nm

Number of transistors

1,700 million

18,600 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

960

4608

Power consumption (TDP)

75 Watt

260 Watt

Texture fill rate

32.64

509.8

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

2 GB

48 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

384 Bit

Memory clock speed

900 MHz

14000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

115 GB/s

672.0 GB/s

Shared memory

-

-

Display Connectors

No outputs

4x DisplayPort, 1x USB Type-C

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

12 Ultimate (12_1)

CUDA

-

7.5

OpenCL

1.2

2.0

OpenGL

4.4

4.6

Shader Model

5.0

6.5

Vulkan

N/A

1.2.131