NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M vs AMD FirePro M3900

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M AMD FirePro M3900

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970M and 1024MB VRAM FirePro M3900 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M 's Advantages

Released 4 years late

Boost Clock1038MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (120.3GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

1120 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 970M +1007%

2.657 TFLOPS

FirePro M3900

0.24 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970M

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FirePro M3900

Graphics Card

Oct 2014

Release Date

Oct 2010

GeForce 900M

Generation

FirePro Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

924 MHz

Base Clock

-

1038 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1253 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

192bit

Memory Bus

64bit

120.3GB/s

Bandwidth

14.40GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

2

1280

Shading Units

160

80

TMUs

8

48

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

Theoretical Performance

49.82 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.000 GPixel/s

83.04 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

6.000 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.657 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

240.0 GFLOPS

83.04 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

Seymour

N16E-GT-A2

GPU Variant

Seymour GL

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

0.37 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

67 mm²

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

20W

-

Suggested PSU

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

5.2

CUDA

-

6.7 (6.4)

Shader Model

5.0

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