NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260M vs AMD FirePro M5950

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260M

AMD FirePro M5950

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260M and 1024MB VRAM FirePro M5950 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260M 's Advantages

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

AMD FirePro M5950 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 10 months late

368 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (35W vs 65W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 260M

0.308 TFLOPS

FirePro M5950 +125%

0.696 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260M

VS

FirePro M5950

Graphics Card

Mar 2009

Release Date

Jan 2011

GeForce 200M

Generation

FirePro Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-A (3.0)

Clock Speeds

-

950 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

60.80GB/s

Bandwidth

57.60GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

6

14

SM Count

-

112

Shading Units

480

56

TMUs

24

16

ROPs

8

-

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

64 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

8.800 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

5.800 GPixel/s

30.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

17.40 GTexel/s

-

308.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

696.0 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

65W

TDP

35W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

G92

GPU Name

Whistler

N10E-GT

GPU Variant

Whistler XT GL

Tesla

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.754 billion

Transistors

0.716 billion

324 mm²

Die Size

104 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.4

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

5.0

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