Quadro FX 3000 vs FirePro M8900

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)Rankine (2003−2005)
GPU code nameBlackcombNV35
Market segmentMobile workstationWorkstation
Release date12 April 2011 (13 years ago)22 July 2003 (21 year ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$203

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores960no data
Core clock speed680 MHz400 MHz
Number of transistors1,700 million135 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm130 nm
Power consumption (TDP)75 Wattno data
Texture fill rate32.643.200
Floating-point processing power1.306 TFLOPSno data
ROPs324
TMUs488

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Laptop sizelargeno data
Bus supportn/ano data
InterfaceMXM-B (3.0)AGP 8x
Widthno data2-slot
Form factorMXM-Bno data
Supplementary power connectorsNone1x Molex

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 typeGDDR5DDR
Maximum RAM amount2 GB256 MB
Memory bus width256 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed900 MHz425 MHz
Memory bandwidth115 GB/s27.2 GB/s
Shared memory-no data

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 outputs2x DVI, 1x S-Video

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX11.2 (11_0)9.0a
Shader Model5.0no data
OpenGL4.41.5 (2.1)
OpenCL1.2N/A
VulkanN/AN/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 12 April 2011 22 July 2003
Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 256 MB
Chip lithography 40 nm 130 nm

FirePro M8900 has an age advantage of 7 years, a 700% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 225% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between FirePro M8900 and Quadro FX 3000. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that FirePro M8900 is a mobile workstation card while Quadro FX 3000 is a workstation one.


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AMD FirePro M8900
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