GeForce GTX 980 and FirePro M3900 - video card comparison

GeForce GTX 980

FirePro M3900

Architecture

Maxwell (2014−2018)

Terascale 2 (2009−2015)

GPU code name

GM204

Seymour XT

Market segment

Desktop

Mobile workstation

Release date

September 2014

April 2011

Bus support

PCI Express 3.0

n/a

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 2.0 x16

Recommended system power (PSU)

500 Watt

-

Supplementary power connectors

2x 6-pins

-

SLI options

+

-

Boost clock speed

1216 MHz

750 MHz

Core clock speed

1064 MHz

700 MHz

CUDA cores

2048

-

Floating-point performance

4,981 gflops

240 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

40 nm

Number of transistors

5,200 million

370 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

2048

160

Power consumption (TDP)

165 Watt

20 Watt

Texture fill rate

144 billion/sec

6.000

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR3

Maximum RAM amount

4 GB

1 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

64 Bit

Memory clock speed

7.0 GB/s

900 MHz

Memory bandwidth

224 GB/s

14 GB/s

Shared memory

-

-

Display Connectors

Dual Link DVI-I, HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.2

No outputs

Multi monitor support

4 displays

-

Eyefinity

-

+

VGA аnalog display support

+

-

DisplayPort Multimode (DP++) support

+

-

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

4.5

4.4

Shader Model

6.4

5.0

Vulkan

1.1.126

N/A

BatteryBoost

+

-

GameStream

+

-

GameWorks

+

-

GeForce ShadowPlay

+

-

GPU Boost

2.0

-

H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder

+

-

Optimus

+

-