FirePro V3900 vs Radeon R7 350

Place in the ranking	600	942
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Power efficiency	7.05	2.31
Architecture	GCN 1.0 (2011−2020)	TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name	Cape Verde	Turks
Market segment	Desktop	Workstation
Release date	6 July 2016 (8 years ago)	7 February 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	512	480
Core clock speed	800 MHz	650 MHz
Number of transistors	1,500 million	716 million
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	55 Watt	199 Watt
Texture fill rate	25.60	15.60
Floating-point processing power	0.8192 TFLOPS	0.624 TFLOPS
ROPs	16	8
TMUs	32	24

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	no data	PCIe 2.1 x16
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length	168 mm	168 mm
Width	1-slot	1-slot
Form factor	no data	half height / half length
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	GDDR5	GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	1 GB
Memory bus width	128 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1125 MHz	900 MHz
Memory bandwidth	72 GB/s	28 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 HDMI, 1x DisplayPort	1x DVI, 1x DisplayPort
HDMI	+	-
DisplayPort count	no data	1
Dual-link DVI support	-	+
HD сomponent video output	-	+

API compatibility

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

DirectX	12 (11_1)	11.2 (11_0)
Shader Model	5.1	5.0
OpenGL	4.6	4.4
OpenCL	1.2	1.2
Vulkan	1.2.131	N/A

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	5.58	1.66
Recency	6 July 2016	7 February 2012
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	1 GB
Chip lithography	28 nm	40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	55 Watt	199 Watt

R7 350 has a 236.1% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 4 years, a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 42.9% more advanced lithography process, and 261.8% lower power consumption.

The Radeon R7 350 is our recommended choice as it beats the FirePro V3900 in performance tests.

Be aware that Radeon R7 350 is a desktop card while FirePro V3900 is a workstation one.

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