AMD FirePro M5950 vs NVIDIA GeForce 940M

VS

AMD FirePro M5950

NVIDIA GeForce 940M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM FirePro M5950 and 2GB VRAM GeForce 940M 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 14.40GB/s)

Lower TDP (35W vs 75W)

NVIDIA GeForce 940M 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock1098MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

32 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro M5950

0.696 TFLOPS

GeForce 940M +61%

1.124 TFLOPS

FirePro M5950

VS

GeForce 940M

Graphics Card

Jan 2011

Release Date

Mar 2015

FirePro Mobile

Generation

GeForce 900M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-A (3.0)

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1020 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1098 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

57.60GB/s

Bandwidth

14.40GB/s

Render Config

6

Compute Units

-

480

Shading Units

512

24

TMUs

32

8

ROPs

16

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SMM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

5.800 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.57 GPixel/s

17.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

35.14 GTexel/s

-

696.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1124 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

35.14 GFLOPS

Board Design

35W

TDP

75W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

Whistler

GPU Name

GM107

Whistler XT GL

GPU Variant

N16S-GT1-KB-B

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Maxwell

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.716 billion

Transistors

1.87 billion

104 mm²

Die Size

148 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

5.0

Shader Model

5.1

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