FirePro M3900: specs and benchmarks
Summary
AMD started FirePro M3900 sales 13 April 2011. This is a Terascale 2 architecture notebook card based on 40 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at designers. 1 GB of GDDR3 memory clocked at 900 GHz are supplied, and together with 64 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 14 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is card attached via PCIe 2.0 x16 interface. Power consumption is at 20 Watt.
Primary details
Some basic facts about FirePro M3900: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
Place in performance ranking | not rated | |
Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
Architecture | Terascale 2 (2009−2015) | |
GPU code name | Seymour XT | |
Market segment | Mobile workstation | |
Release date | 13 April 2011 (13 years ago) | |
Current price | $42 | of 168889 (A100 PCIe 80 GB) |
Detailed specifications
FirePro M3900's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of FirePro M3900's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
Pipelines / CUDA cores | 160 | of 20480 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT) |
Core clock speed | 700 MHz | of 2610 (Radeon RX 6500 XT) |
Boost clock speed | 750 MHz | of 3599 (Radeon RX 7990 XTX) |
Number of transistors | 370 million | of 14400 (GeForce GTX 1080 SLI Mobile) |
Manufacturing process technology | 40 nm | of 4 (H100 PCIe) |
Power consumption (TDP) | 20 Watt | of 2400 (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem) |
Texture fill rate | 6.000 | of 969.9 (H100 SXM5 96 GB) |
Floating-point performance | 240 gflops | of 16384 (Radeon Pro Duo) |
Form factor & compatibility
Information on FirePro M3900's compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For notebook video cards it's notebook size, connection slot and bus, if the video card is inserted into a slot instead of being soldered to the notebook motherboard.
Bus support | n/a | |
Interface | PCIe 2.0 x16 | |
Form factor | chip-down |
VRAM capacity and type
Parameters of memory installed on FirePro M3900: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.
Memory type | GDDR3 | |
Maximum RAM amount | 1 GB | of 192 (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
Memory bus width | 64 Bit | of 8192 (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
Memory clock speed | 900 MHz | of 23000 (GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER) |
Memory bandwidth | 14 GB/s | of 3276 (Aldebaran) |
Shared memory | - |
Connectivity and outputs
Types and number of video connectors present on FirePro M3900. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.
Display Connectors | No outputs | |
Eyefinity | + |
API compatibility
APIs supported by FirePro M3900, sometimes including their particular versions.
DirectX | 11.2 (11_0) | |
Shader Model | 5.0 | |
OpenGL | 4.4 | of 4.6 (GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile) |
OpenCL | 1.2 | |
Vulkan | N/A |
NVIDIA equivalent
According to our data, the closest NVIDIA alternative to FirePro M3900 is NVS 5200M.
Similar GPUs
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Recommended processors
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