FirePro M8900 vs GeForce GTX 580M

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking613not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency3.69no data
ArchitectureFermi 2.0 (2010−2014)TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code nameGF114Blackcomb
Market segmentLaptopMobile workstation
Release date28 June 2011 (13 years ago)12 April 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 cores384960
Core clock speed620 MHz680 MHz
Number of transistors1,950 million1,700 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)100 Watt75 Watt
Texture fill rate39.6832.64
Floating-point processing power0.9523 TFLOPS1.306 TFLOPS
ROPs3232
TMUs6448

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 supportPCI-E 2.0n/a
InterfaceMXM-B (3.0)MXM-B (3.0)
Form factorno dataMXM-B
Supplementary power connectorsNoneNone
SLI options+-

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 GB2 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed1500 MHz900 MHz
Memory bandwidth96.0 GB/s115 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.

DirectX12 API11.2 (11_0)
Shader Model5.15.0
OpenGL4.54.4
OpenCL1.11.2
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA+-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 28 June 2011 12 April 2011
Power consumption (TDP) 100 Watt 75 Watt

GTX 580M has an age advantage of 2 months.

FirePro M8900, on the other hand, has 33.3% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce GTX 580M and FirePro M8900. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce GTX 580M is a notebook graphics card while FirePro M8900 is a mobile workstation one.


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