GeForce GT 630 OEM vs FirePro V3900

Place in the ranking	946	942
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Power efficiency	2.28	2.29
Architecture	TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)	Kepler (2012−2018)
GPU code name	Turks	GK107
Market segment	Workstation	Desktop
Release date	7 February 2012 (12 years ago)	24 April 2012 (12 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	480	192
Core clock speed	650 MHz	875 MHz
Number of transistors	716 million	1,270 million
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	199 Watt	50 Watt
Texture fill rate	15.60	14.00
Floating-point processing power	0.624 TFLOPS	0.336 TFLOPS
ROPs	8	16
TMUs	24	16

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Bus support	PCIe 2.1 x16	no data
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
Length	168 mm	145 mm
Width	1-slot	1-slot
Form factor	half height / half length	no data
Supplementary power connectors	None	None

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory type	GDDR3	DDR3
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	1 GB
Memory bus width	128 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	900 MHz	891 MHz
Memory bandwidth	28 GB/s	28.51 GB/s

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x DisplayPort	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
HDMI	-	+
DisplayPort count	1	no data
Dual-link DVI support	+	-
HD сomponent video output	+	-

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX	11.2 (11_0)	12 (11_0)
Shader Model	5.0	5.1
OpenGL	4.4	4.6
OpenCL	1.2	1.2
Vulkan	N/A	1.1.126
CUDA	-	3.0

Gaming performance

Let's see how good the compared graphics cards are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.

Pros & cons summary

Performance score	1.66	1.67
Recency	7 February 2012	24 April 2012
Chip lithography	40 nm	28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	199 Watt	50 Watt

GT 630 OEM has a 0.6% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 2 months, a 42.9% more advanced lithography process, and 298% lower power consumption.

Given the minimal performance differences, no clear winner can be declared between FirePro V3900 and GeForce GT 630 OEM.

Be aware that FirePro V3900 is a workstation graphics card while GeForce GT 630 OEM is a desktop one.

Should you still have questions concerning choice between the reviewed GPUs, ask them in Comments section, and we shall answer.