NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX vs AMD FirePro M5950

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX

AMD FirePro M5950

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980MX 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 980MX 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1178MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 57.60GB/s)

1184 additional rendering cores

AMD FirePro M5950 's Advantages

Lower TDP (35W vs 148W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 980MX +463%

3.92 TFLOPS

FirePro M5950

0.696 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980MX

VS

FirePro M5950

Graphics Card

Jun 2016

Release Date

Jan 2011

GeForce 900M

Generation

FirePro Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-A (3.0)

Clock Speeds

1050 MHz

Base Clock

-

1178 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

192.0GB/s

Bandwidth

57.60GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

6

-

1664

Shading Units

480

104

TMUs

24

64

ROPs

8

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

75.39 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

5.800 GPixel/s

122.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

17.40 GTexel/s

-

3.920 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

696.0 GFLOPS

122.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

148W

TDP

35W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

Whistler

N16E-GXX-A1

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

-

6.4

Shader Model

5.0

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