FirePro M8900: specs and benchmarks
Summary
AMD started FirePro M8900 sales 12 April 2011. This is a Terascale 2 architecture notebook card based on 40 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at designers. 2 GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 900 GHz are supplied, and together with 256 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 115 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is card attached via MXM-B (3.0) interface. Power consumption is at 75 Watt.
General info
Some basic facts about FirePro M8900: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in performance ranking | not rated | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Architecture | Terascale 2 (2009−2015) | |
| GPU code name | Blackcomb XT | |
| Market segment | Mobile workstation | |
| Release date | 12 April 2011 (13 years old) | |
| Current price | $267 | of 168889 (A100 PCIe 80 GB) |
Technical specs
FirePro M8900's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of FirePro M8900's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 960 | of 20480 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT) |
| Core clock speed | 680 MHz | of 2610 (Radeon RX 6500 XT) |
| Number of transistors | 1,700 million | of 14400 (GeForce GTX 1080 SLI Mobile) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 40 nm | of 4 (H100 PCIe) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 75 Watt | of 2400 (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem) |
| Texture fill rate | 32.64 | of 969.9 (H100 SXM5 96 GB) |
| Floating-point performance | 1,305.6 gflops | of 16384 (Radeon Pro Duo) |
Size and compatibility
Information on FirePro M8900's compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For notebook video cards it's notebook size, connection slot and bus, if the video card is inserted into a slot instead of being soldered to the notebook motherboard.
| Laptop size | large | |
| Bus support | n/a | |
| Interface | MXM-B (3.0) | |
| Form factor | MXM-B | |
| Supplementary power connectors | None |
Memory
Parameters of memory installed on FirePro M8900: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.
| Memory type | GDDR5 | |
| Maximum RAM amount | 2 GB | of 192 (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
| Memory bus width | 256 Bit | of 8192 (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory clock speed | 900 MHz | of 23000 (GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER) |
| Memory bandwidth | 115 GB/s | of 3276 (Aldebaran) |
| Shared memory | - |
Video outputs and ports
Types and number of video connectors present on FirePro M8900. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.
| Display Connectors | No outputs |
API support
APIs supported by FirePro M8900, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 11.2 (11_0) | |
| Shader Model | 5.0 | |
| OpenGL | 4.4 | of 4.6 (GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile) |
| OpenCL | 1.2 | |
| Vulkan | N/A |
NVIDIA equivalent
According to our data, the closest NVIDIA alternative to FirePro M8900 is Quadro P620.
Similar GPUs
Here is our recommendation of several graphics cards that are more or less close in performance to the one reviewed.
Recommended processors
These processors are most commonly used with FirePro M8900 according to our statistics.
