
GeForce GTX 970 and FirePro V3900 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 970 vs FirePro V3900
GeForce GTX 970
9932
FirePro V3900
660
GeForce GTX 970
FirePro V3900
Architecture
Maxwell (2014−2018)
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name
GM204
Turks
Market segment
Desktop
Workstation
Release date
September 2014
February 2012
Bus support
PCI Express 3.0
PCIe 2.1 x16
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Recommended system power (PSU)
500 Watt
-
Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pins
None
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
1178 MHz
-
Core clock speed
1050 MHz
650 MHz
CUDA cores
1664
-
Floating-point performance
3,920 gflops
624.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
5,200 million
716 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1664
480
Power consumption (TDP)
145 Watt
199 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
98 °C
-
Texture fill rate
109 billion/sec
15.60
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
1 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
7.0 GB/s
1800 MHz
Memory bandwidth
224 GB/s
28 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
Dual Link DVI-I, HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.2
1x DVI, 1x DisplayPort
Multi monitor support
4 displays
-
DisplayPort count
-
1
Dual-link DVI support
-
1
HD сomponent video output
-
1
HDMI
+
-
HDCP
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
G-SYNC support
+
-
Audio input for HDMI
Internal
-
DirectX
12 (12_1)
11.2 (11_0)
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.4
4.4
Shader Model
6.4
5.0
Vulkan
1.1.126
N/A
GameStream
+
-
GameWorks
+
-
GeForce ShadowPlay
+
-
GPU Boost
2.0
-