NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470M SLI vs AMD FirePro M3900

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470M SLI and AMD FirePro M3900 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Video outputs and ports, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: Geekbench - OpenCL.

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470M SLI

AMD FirePro M3900

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470M SLI

3.6x more pipelines: 576 vs 160

Pipelines	576 vs 160

Reasons to consider the AMD FirePro M3900

Around 40% higher core clock speed: 750 MHz vs 535 MHz
Around 44% higher memory clock speed: 1800 MHz vs 1250 MHz

Core clock speed	750 MHz vs 535 MHz
Memory clock speed	1800 MHz vs 1250 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470M SLI
GPU 2: AMD FirePro M3900

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470M SLI	AMD FirePro M3900
Geekbench - OpenCL		4446

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470M SLI	AMD FirePro M3900
Essentials
Architecture	Fermi	TeraScale 2
Code name	N11E-GT	Seymour
Launch date	1 November 2010	19 October 2010
Place in performance rating	not rated	1660
Type	Laptop	Mobile workstation
Technical info
Core clock speed	535 MHz	750 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	576	160
Boost clock speed		750 MHz
Floating-point performance		240 gflops
Texture fill rate		6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		20 Watt
Transistor count		370 million
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Laptop size	large
Bus support		n / a
Form factor		chip-down
Interface		PCIe 2.0 x16
API support
DirectX	11	11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL		4.4
Memory
Memory bus width	192 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	1250 MHz	1800 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR3
Shared memory	0	0
Maximum RAM amount		1 GB
Memory bandwidth		14 GB / s
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors		No outputs
Technologies
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