AMD FirePro M5950 vs NVIDIA GeForce 820M

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We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM FirePro M5950 and 2GB VRAM GeForce 820M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro M5950 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (57.60GB/s vs 28.83GB/s)

96 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (35W vs 45W)

NVIDIA GeForce 820M 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 2 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro M5950 +11%

0.696 TFLOPS

GeForce 820M

0.622 TFLOPS

FirePro M5950

VS

GeForce 820M

Graphics Card

Jan 2011

Release Date

Mar 2015

FirePro Mobile

Generation

GeForce 800M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-A (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

901 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

57.60GB/s

Bandwidth

28.83GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

6

Compute Units

-

480

Shading Units

384

24

TMUs

32

8

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

256 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

5.800 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.480 GPixel/s

17.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

25.92 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

696.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

622.1 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

25.92 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Whistler

GPU Name

GK107

Whistler XT GL

GPU Variant

-

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Kepler

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.716 billion

Transistors

1.27 billion

104 mm²

Die Size

118 mm²

Board Design

35W

TDP

45W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.1

-

CUDA

3.0

5.0

Shader Model

5.1

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