FirePro M8900 and Radeon RX 6600 - video card comparison

FirePro M8900

Radeon RX 6600

Architecture

Terascale 2 (2009−2015)

Navi / RDNA2 (2020−2022)

GPU code name

Blackcomb XT

Navi 23

Market segment

Mobile workstation

Desktop

Release date

April 2011

October 2021

Bus support

n/a

-

Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

PCIe 4.0 x8

Supplementary power connectors

None

1x 8-pin

Boost clock speed

-

2491 MHz

Core clock speed

680 MHz

2044 MHz

Floating-point performance

1,305.6 gflops

-

Manufacturing process technology

40 nm

7 nm

Number of transistors

1,700 million

11,060 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

960

1792

Power consumption (TDP)

75 Watt

132 Watt

Texture fill rate

32.64

279.0

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

2 GB

8 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

128 Bit

Memory clock speed

900 MHz

14500 MHz

Memory bandwidth

115 GB/s

224.0 GB/s

Shared memory

-

-

Display Connectors

No outputs

1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

HDMI

-

+

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

12.0 Ultimate (12_2)

OpenCL

1.2

2.1

OpenGL

4.4

4.6

Shader Model

5.0

6.5

Vulkan

N/A

1.2