FirePro M8900: specs and benchmarks
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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 0.9 GHz are supplied, and together with 256 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 115 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is a graphics card attached via MXM-B (3.0) interface. Power consumption is at 75 Watt.
Primary details
Some basic facts about FirePro M8900: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in the ranking | not rated | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Architecture | TeraScale 2 (2009−2015) | |
| GPU code name | Blackcomb | |
| Market segment | Mobile workstation | |
| Release date | 12 April 2011 (14 years ago) |
Detailed specifications
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 | |
| Core clock speed | 680 MHz | of 980 (GeForce GT 755M SLI) |
| Number of transistors | 1,700 million | of 100,000 million (Data Center GPU Max 1100) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 40 nm | of 0.003 MB (Arc Graphics 140V) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 75 Watt | of 235 (FirePro S9150) |
| Texture fill rate | 32.64 | of 1,968.0 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server) |
| Floating-point processing power | 1.306 TFLOPS | of 126 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server) |
| ROPs | 32 | of 512 (Moore Threads MTT S4000) |
| TMUs | 48 | of 896 (Data Center GPU Max 1350) |
| L1 Cache | 192 KB | of 64 MB (Data Center GPU Max 1550) |
| L2 Cache | 512 KB | of 408 MB (Data Center GPU Max 1350) |
Form factor & compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of FirePro M8900 and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).
| Laptop size | large | |
| Bus support | n/a | |
| Interface | MXM-B (3.0) | |
| Form factor | MXM-B | |
| Supplementary power connectors | None |
VRAM capacity and type
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 288 GB (Radeon Instinct MI325X) |
| Memory bus width | 256 Bit | of 384 (GeForce GTX 980 Ti) |
| Memory clock speed | 900 MHz | of 16384000 MB (GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile) |
| Memory bandwidth | 115 GB/s | of 983040 MB (GeForce RTX 5080) |
| Shared memory | - |
Connectivity and outputs
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 and SDK 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 (RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell) |
| OpenCL | 1.2 | |
| Vulkan | N/A |
NVIDIA equivalent
According to our data, the closest NVIDIA alternative to FirePro M8900 is Quadro P600.
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.
