AMD FirePro M5950 vs AMD Radeon R9 M270X

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AMD FirePro M5950

AMD Radeon R9 M270X

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM FirePro M5950 and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 M270X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 M270X 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock1000MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (88.00GB/s vs 57.60GB/s)

288 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro M5950

0.696 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M270X +120%

1.536 TFLOPS

FirePro M5950

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Radeon R9 M270X

Graphics Card

Jan 2011

Release Date

Feb 2015

FirePro Mobile

Generation

Gem System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-A (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

900 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1000 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

57.60GB/s

Bandwidth

88.00GB/s

Render Config

6

Compute Units

12

-

480

Shading Units

768

24

TMUs

48

8

ROPs

16

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

5.800 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

16.00 GPixel/s

17.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

48.00 GTexel/s

-

696.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.536 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

96.00 GFLOPS

Board Design

35W

TDP

Unknown

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

Graphics Processor

Whistler

GPU Name

Saturn

Whistler XT GL

GPU Variant

Saturn PRO (216-0843044)

TeraScale 2

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.716 billion

Transistors

2.08 billion

104 mm²

Die Size

160 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.1

N/A

Vulkan

1.2.170

-

5.0

Shader Model

6.5

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