NVIDIA Tegra 3 vs AMD FirePro V4900

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Tegra 3 and AMD FirePro V4900 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

NVIDIA Tegra 3

AMD FirePro V4900

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Tegra 3

3.8x lower typical power consumption: 20 Watt vs 75 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	20 Watt vs 75 Watt

Reasons to consider the AMD FirePro V4900

Around 92% higher core clock speed: 800 MHz vs 416 MHz

Core clock speed	800 MHz vs 416 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Tegra 3
GPU 2: AMD FirePro V4900

Name	NVIDIA Tegra 3	AMD FirePro V4900
PassMark - G3D Mark		988
PassMark - G2D Mark		309
Geekbench - OpenCL		12641
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		6.303
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		392.237
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		0.597
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		17.874
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		72.818
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		1747
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3753
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		7745
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		1747
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3753
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		7745

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA Tegra 3	AMD FirePro V4900
Essentials
Architecture	GeForce ULP	TeraScale 2
Code name	Tegra 3	Turks
Launch date	9 November 2011	1 November 2011
Place in performance rating	not rated	947
Type	Desktop	Workstation
Technical info
Boost clock speed	520 MHz
Core clock speed	416 MHz	800 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	40 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	20 Watt	75 Watt
Transistor count	10 million	716 million
Floating-point performance		768.0 gflops
Pipelines		480
Texture fill rate		19.2 GTexel / s
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 2x DisplayPort
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	IGP	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length		163 mm
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	N / A	11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL	ES 2.0	4.4
Memory
Maximum RAM amount		1 GB
Memory bandwidth		64.0 GB / s
Memory bus width		128 Bit
Memory clock speed		4000 MHz
Memory type		GDDR5