FirePro M8900 and Radeon RX 580 2048SP - video card comparison
FirePro M8900
Radeon RX 580 2048SP
Architecture
Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)
GPU code name
Blackcomb XT
Polaris 20
Market segment
Mobile workstation
Desktop
Release date
April 2011
October 2018
Bus support
n/a
-
Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
1x 8-pin
Boost clock speed
-
1284 MHz
Core clock speed
680 MHz
1168 MHz
Floating-point performance
1,305.6 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
14 nm
Number of transistors
1,700 million
5,700 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
960
2048
Power consumption (TDP)
75 Watt
150 Watt
Texture fill rate
32.64
164.4
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
8 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
900 MHz
7000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
115 GB/s
224.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
HDMI
-
+
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
12 (12_0)
OpenCL
1.2
2.0
OpenGL
4.4
4.6
Shader Model
5.0
6.4
Vulkan
N/A
1.2.131