AMD FirePro M5950 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260M

VS

AMD FirePro M5950

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM FirePro M5950 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260M 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 10 months late

368 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (35W vs 65W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260M 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (60.80GB/s vs 57.60GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro M5950 +125%

0.696 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260M

0.308 TFLOPS

FirePro M5950

VS

GeForce GTX 260M

Graphics Card

Jan 2011

Release Date

Mar 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

950 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

57.60GB/s

Bandwidth

60.80GB/s

Render Config

6

Compute Units

-

SM Count

14

480

Shading Units

112

24

TMUs

56

8

ROPs

16

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

5.800 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

8.800 GPixel/s

17.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

30.80 GTexel/s

-

696.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

308.0 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

35W

TDP

65W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

Whistler

GPU Name

G92

Whistler XT GL

GPU Variant

N10E-GT

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

65 nm

0.716 billion

Transistors

0.754 billion

104 mm²

Die Size

324 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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