FirePro M8900 and Radeon HD 8950M - video card comparison
FirePro M8900
Radeon HD 8950M
Architecture
Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
GPU code name
Blackcomb XT
Saturn
Market segment
Mobile workstation
Desktop
Release date
April 2011
May 2013
Bus support
n/a
-
Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
-
Core clock speed
680 MHz
1075 MHz
Floating-point performance
1,305.6 gflops
1,651 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
1,700 million
2,080 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
960
768
Power consumption (TDP)
75 Watt
100 Watt
Texture fill rate
32.64
51.60
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
900 MHz
5500 MHz
Memory bandwidth
115 GB/s
88 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
12 (12_0)
OpenCL
1.2
2.0
OpenGL
4.4
4.6
Shader Model
5.0
6.3
Vulkan
N/A
1.2.131