AMD FirePro M5950 vs AMD Radeon R9 M395X Mac Edition

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AMD FirePro M5950

AMD Radeon R9 M395X Mac Edition

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM FirePro M5950 and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 M395X Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro M5950 's Advantages

Lower TDP (35W vs 250W)

AMD Radeon R9 M395X Mac Edition 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 4 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (174.7GB/s vs 57.60GB/s)

1568 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro M5950

0.696 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M395X Mac Edition +434%

3.723 TFLOPS

FirePro M5950

VS

Radeon R9 M395X Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Jan 2011

Release Date

May 2015

FirePro Mobile

Generation

Crystal System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-A (3.0)

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1365 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

57.60GB/s

Bandwidth

174.7GB/s

Render Config

6

Compute Units

32

-

480

Shading Units

2048

24

TMUs

128

8

ROPs

32

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

5.800 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.09 GPixel/s

17.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

116.4 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

3.723 TFLOPS

696.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.723 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

232.7 GFLOPS

Board Design

35W

TDP

250W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Whistler

GPU Name

Amethyst

Whistler XT GL

GPU Variant

Amethyst XT

TeraScale 2

Architecture

GCN 3.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.716 billion

Transistors

5 billion

104 mm²

Die Size

366 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

-

5.0

Shader Model

6.3

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