GeForce RTX 5090 vs FirePro V3900

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking946not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency2.28no data
ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)Blackwell 2.0 (2025)
GPU code nameTurksGB202
Market segmentWorkstationDesktop
Release date7 February 2012 (12 years ago)2025

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 cores48021760
Core clock speed650 MHz2235 MHz
Boost clock speedno data2520 MHz
Number of transistors716 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology40 nm0 nm
Power consumption (TDP)199 Watt500 Watt
Texture fill rate15.601,714
Floating-point processing power0.624 TFLOPS109.7 TFLOPS
ROPs8192
TMUs24680
Tensor Coresno data680
Ray Tracing Coresno data170

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 supportPCIe 2.1 x16no data
InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 5.0 x16
Length168 mm304 mm
Width1-slot3-slot
Form factorhalf height / half lengthno data
Supplementary power connectorsNone1x 16-pin

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 typeGDDR3GDDR7
Maximum RAM amount1 GB32 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit512 Bit
Memory clock speed900 MHz1875 MHz
Memory bandwidth28 GB/s1.52 TB/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 Connectors1x DVI, 1x DisplayPort1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI-+
DisplayPort count1no data
Dual-link DVI support+-
HD сomponent video output+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.2 (11_0)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model5.06.8
OpenGL4.44.6
OpenCL1.23.0
VulkanN/A1.3
CUDA-10.1

Pros & cons summary


Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 32 GB
Power consumption (TDP) 199 Watt 500 Watt

FirePro V3900 has 151.3% lower power consumption.

RTX 5090, on the other hand, has a 3100% higher maximum VRAM amount.

We couldn't decide between FirePro V3900 and GeForce RTX 5090. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that FirePro V3900 is a workstation graphics card while GeForce RTX 5090 is a desktop one.


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