AMD FirePro M5950 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 230M

VS

AMD FirePro M5950

NVIDIA GeForce GT 230M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM FirePro M5950 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 230M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro M5950 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 7 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (57.60GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)

432 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 230M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (23W vs 35W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro M5950 +556%

0.696 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 230M

0.106 TFLOPS

FirePro M5950

VS

GeForce GT 230M

Graphics Card

Jan 2011

Release Date

Jun 2009

FirePro Mobile

Generation

GeForce 200M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-A (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

57.60GB/s

Bandwidth

25.60GB/s

Render Config

6

Compute Units

-

SM Count

6

480

Shading Units

48

24

TMUs

16

8

ROPs

8

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

5.800 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.000 GPixel/s

17.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

8.000 GTexel/s

-

696.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

105.6 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

35W

TDP

23W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

Whistler

GPU Name

GT216

Whistler XT GL

GPU Variant

N10P-GE-A2

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.716 billion

Transistors

0.486 billion

104 mm²

Die Size

100 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_1)

4.4

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.2

5.0

Shader Model

4.1

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