NVS 5400M vs FirePro M8900

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in performance rankingnot rated913
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data0.05
ArchitectureTerascale 2 (2009−2015)Fermi (2010−2014)
GPU code nameBlackcomb XTN13P-NS1
Market segmentMobile workstationMobile workstation
Release date12 April 2011 (13 years ago)1 June 2012 (12 years ago)
Current price$267 $381

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Detailed specifications

General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores96096
Core clock speed680 MHz660 MHz
Number of transistors1,700 million585 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)75 Watt35 Watt
Texture fill rate32.6410.56
Floating-point performance1,305.6 gflops253.4 gflops

Form factor & compatibility

Information on FirePro M8900 and NVS 5400M 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 sizelargemedium sized
Bus supportn/ano data
InterfaceMXM-B (3.0)MXM
Form factorMXM-Bno data
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno data

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR5DDR3
Maximum RAM amount2 GB2 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed900 MHz1800 MHz
Memory bandwidth115 GB/s28.8 GB/s
Shared memory--

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display ConnectorsNo outputsNo outputs

API compatibility

List of supported graphics and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX11.2 (11_0)12 (11_0)
Shader Model5.05.1
OpenGL4.44.6
OpenCL1.21.1
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDAno data+

Pros & cons summary


Recency 12 April 2011 1 June 2012
Power consumption (TDP) 75 Watt 35 Watt

We couldn't decide between FirePro M8900 and NVS 5400M. We've got no test results to judge.


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