Quadro 4000 and FirePro M8900 - video card comparison
Quadro 4000
FirePro M8900
Architecture
Fermi (2010−2014)
Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name
GF100
Blackcomb XT
Market segment
Workstation
Mobile workstation
Release date
November 2010
April 2011
Bus support
-
n/a
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
MXM-B (3.0)
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
None
Core clock speed
475 MHz
680 MHz
Floating-point performance
486.4 gflops
1,305.6 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
3,100 million
1,700 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
256
960
Power consumption (TDP)
142 Watt
75 Watt
Texture fill rate
15.20
32.64
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
2808 MHz
900 MHz
Memory bandwidth
89.86 GB/s
115 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 2x DisplayPort
No outputs
DirectX
12 (11_0)
11.2 (11_0)
CUDA
2.0
-
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.4
Shader Model
5.1
5.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A