NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M vs AMD FirePro M5950

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M

AMD FirePro M5950

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970M 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 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)

GeForce GTX 970M +281%

2.657 TFLOPS

FirePro M5950

0.696 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970M

VS

FirePro M5950

Graphics Card

Oct 2014

Release Date

Jan 2011

GeForce 900M

Generation

FirePro Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

MXM-A (3.0)

Clock Speeds

924 MHz

Base Clock

-

1038 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1253 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

120.3GB/s

Bandwidth

57.60GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

6

-

1280

Shading Units

480

80

TMUs

24

48

ROPs

8

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

49.82 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

5.800 GPixel/s

83.04 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

17.40 GTexel/s

-

2.657 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

696.0 GFLOPS

83.04 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

35W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

Whistler

N16E-GT-A2

GPU Variant

Whistler XT GL

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

0.716 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

104 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

5.2

CUDA

-

6.7 (6.4)

Shader Model

5.0

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