AMD FirePro M5950 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M

VS

AMD FirePro M5950

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM FirePro M5950 and 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1038MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (120.3GB/s vs 57.60GB/s)

800 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro M5950

0.696 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970M +281%

2.657 TFLOPS

FirePro M5950

VS

GeForce GTX 970M

Graphics Card

Jan 2011

Release Date

Oct 2014

FirePro Mobile

Generation

GeForce 900M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-A (3.0)

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

924 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1038 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1253 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

192bit

57.60GB/s

Bandwidth

120.3GB/s

Render Config

6

Compute Units

-

480

Shading Units

1280

24

TMUs

80

8

ROPs

48

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

5.800 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

49.82 GPixel/s

17.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

83.04 GTexel/s

-

696.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.657 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

83.04 GFLOPS

Board Design

35W

TDP

Unknown

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Whistler

GPU Name

GM204

Whistler XT GL

GPU Variant

N16E-GT-A2

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.716 billion

Transistors

5.2 billion

104 mm²

Die Size

398 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

5.2

5.0

Shader Model

6.7 (6.4)

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