GeForce GTX 560M 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 rated739
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data3.14
ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)Fermi 2.0 (2010−2014)
GPU code nameBlackcombGF116
Market segmentMobile workstationLaptop
Release date12 April 2011 (13 years ago)30 May 2011 (13 years ago)

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 cores960192
Core clock speed680 MHz775 MHz
Number of transistors1,700 million1,170 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)75 Watt75 Watt
Texture fill rate32.6424.80
Floating-point processing power1.306 TFLOPS0.5952 TFLOPS
ROPs3224
TMUs4832

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 sizelargelarge
Bus supportn/aPCI-E 2.0
InterfaceMXM-B (3.0)MXM-B (3.0)
Form factorMXM-Bno data
Supplementary power connectorsNoneNone
SLI options-2-way

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 typeGDDR5GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount2 GB1536 MB
Memory bus width256 BitUp to 192 Bit
Memory clock speed900 MHz1250 MHz
Memory bandwidth115 GB/sUp to 60 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

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

3D Blu-Ray-+
3D Gaming-+
Optimus-+

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.2 (11_0)12 API
Shader Model5.05.1
OpenGL4.44.5
OpenCL1.21.1
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA-+

Pros & cons summary


Recency 12 April 2011 30 May 2011
Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 1536 MB

FirePro M8900 has a 33.3% higher maximum VRAM amount.

GTX 560M, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 1 month.

We couldn't decide between FirePro M8900 and GeForce GTX 560M. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that FirePro M8900 is a mobile workstation card while GeForce GTX 560M is a mobile workstation one.


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