GeForce RTX 2070 Super Max-Q vs FirePro M3900

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated137
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data30.76
ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)Turing (2018−2022)
GPU code nameSeymourTU104
Market segmentMobile workstationLaptop
Release date19 October 2010 (14 years ago)2 April 2020 (4 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 cores1602560
Core clock speed750 MHz930 MHz
Boost clock speed750 MHz1155 MHz
Number of transistors370 million13,600 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)20 Watt80 Watt
Texture fill rate6.000184.8
Floating-point processing power0.24 TFLOPS5.914 TFLOPS
ROPs464
TMUs8160
Tensor Coresno data320
Ray Tracing Coresno data40

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).

Laptop sizeno datalarge
Bus supportn/ano data
InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x16
Form factorchip-downno data
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

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 typeGDDR3GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount1 GB8 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed900 MHz1375 MHz
Memory bandwidth14 GB/s352.0 GB/s
Shared memory--

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 ConnectorsNo outputsNo outputs
Eyefinity+-
G-SYNC support-+

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

VR Readyno data+

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.2 (11_0)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model5.06.5
OpenGL4.44.6
OpenCL1.21.2
VulkanN/A1.2.140
CUDA-7.5

Pros & cons summary


Recency 19 October 2010 2 April 2020
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 8 GB
Chip lithography 40 nm 12 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 20 Watt 80 Watt

FirePro M3900 has 300% lower power consumption.

RTX 2070 Super Max-Q, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 9 years, a 700% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 233.3% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between FirePro M3900 and GeForce RTX 2070 Super Max-Q. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that FirePro M3900 is a mobile workstation card while GeForce RTX 2070 Super Max-Q is a mobile workstation one.


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AMD FirePro M3900
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