FirePro M8900 and Radeon 780M - video card comparison

FirePro M8900

Radeon 780M

Architecture

Terascale 2 (2009−2015)

RDNA 3

GPU code name

Blackcomb XT

Phoenix

Market segment

Mobile workstation

Laptop

Release date

April 2011

January 2023

Bus support

n/a

-

Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

PCIe 4.0 x8

Supplementary power connectors

None

None

Boost clock speed

-

3000 MHz

Core clock speed

680 MHz

1500 MHz

Floating-point performance

1,305.6 gflops

-

Manufacturing process technology

40 nm

4 nm

Number of transistors

1,700 million

25,390 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

960

768

Power consumption (TDP)

75 Watt

54 Watt (35 - 54 Watt TGP)

Texture fill rate

32.64

139.2

Memory type

GDDR5

System Shared

Maximum RAM amount

2 GB

System Shared

Memory bus width

256 Bit

System Shared

Memory clock speed

900 MHz

System Shared

Memory bandwidth

115 GB/s

-

Shared memory

-

+

Display Connectors

No outputs

Portable Device Dependent

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

OpenCL

1.2

2.1

OpenGL

4.4

4.6

Shader Model

5.0

6.7

Vulkan

N/A

1.3