AMD FirePro M5950 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS

VS

AMD FirePro M5950

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM FirePro M5950 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600M GS to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro M5950 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 8 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (57.60GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

464 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS 's Advantages

Lower TDP (20W vs 35W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro M5950 +2300%

0.696 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600M GS

0.029 TFLOPS

FirePro M5950

VS

GeForce 8600M GS

Graphics Card

Jan 2011

Release Date

May 2007

FirePro Mobile

Generation

GeForce 8M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-A (3.0)

Bus Interface

MXM-II

Clock Speeds

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

57.60GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

6

Compute Units

-

SM Count

1

480

Shading Units

16

24

TMUs

8

ROPs

4

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

5.800 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.800 GPixel/s

17.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

3.600 GTexel/s

-

696.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

28.80 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

35W

TDP

20W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

Whistler

GPU Name

G86

Whistler XT GL

GPU Variant

G86-770-A2

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

80 nm

0.716 billion

Transistors

0.21 billion

104 mm²

Die Size

127 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.4

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

5.0

Shader Model

4.0

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