Quadro M3000M and FirePro M8900 - video card comparison
Quadro M3000M
FirePro M8900
Architecture
Maxwell (2014−2018)
Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name
GM204
Blackcomb XT
Market segment
Mobile workstation
Mobile workstation
Release date
October 2015
April 2011
Bus support
-
n/a
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
MXM-B (3.0)
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
Core clock speed
1050 MHz
680 MHz
Floating-point performance
2,150 gflops
1,305.6 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
5,200 million
1,700 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1,024
960
Power consumption (TDP)
75 Watt
75 Watt
Texture fill rate
67.20
32.64
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
5000 MHz
900 MHz
Memory bandwidth
160 GB/s
115 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
Display Port
1.2
-
DirectX
12
11.2 (11_0)
CUDA
5.2
-
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.5
4.4
Shader Model
5.0
5.0
Vulkan
+
N/A
3D Vision Pro
+
-
Mosaic
+
-
nView Display Management
+
-
Optimus
+
-