AMD FirePro M5950 vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 X2

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AMD FirePro M5950

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 X2

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM FirePro M5950 and 512MB VRAM Mobility Radeon HD 3870 X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro M5950 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 4 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (57.60GB/s vs 54.40GB/s)

160 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (35W vs 110W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro M5950 +64%

0.696 TFLOPS

Mobility Radeon HD 3870 X2

0.422 TFLOPS

FirePro M5950

VS

Mobility Radeon HD 3870 X2

Graphics Card

Jan 2011

Release Date

Sep 2008

FirePro Mobile

Generation

M8x

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-A (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

850 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

57.60GB/s

Bandwidth

54.40GB/s

Render Config

6

Compute Units

4

-

480

Shading Units

320

24

TMUs

16

8

ROPs

16

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

5.800 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.56 GPixel/s

17.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

10.56 GTexel/s

-

696.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

422.4 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

84.48 GFLOPS

Board Design

35W

TDP

110W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

Whistler

GPU Name

M88

Whistler XT GL

GPU Variant

-

TeraScale 2

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

55 nm

0.716 billion

Transistors

0.666 billion

104 mm²

Die Size

192 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.4

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

5.0

Shader Model

4.1

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