FirePro D300 and GeForce GTX 950M - video card comparison

FirePro D300

GeForce GTX 950M

Architecture

GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)

Maxwell (2014−2018)

GPU code name

Pitcairn

N16P-GT

Market segment

Workstation

Laptop

Release date

January 2014

March 2015

Bus support

-

PCI Express 3.0

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 3.0 x8

SLI options

-

+

Boost clock speed

-

1124 MHz

Core clock speed

850 MHz

914 MHz

CUDA cores

-

640

Floating-point performance

2,176 gflops

1,439 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

28 nm

Number of transistors

2,800 million

1,870 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

1280

640

Power consumption (TDP)

150 Watt

75 Watt

Texture fill rate

68.00

44.96

Memory type

GDDR5

DDR3 or GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

2 GB

4 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

128 Bit

Memory clock speed

5080 MHz

1000 or 2500 MHz

Memory bandwidth

162.6 GB/s

32 or 80 GB/s

Shared memory

-

-

Display Connectors

4x DisplayPort

No outputs

VGA аnalog display support

-

+

DisplayPort Multimode (DP++) support

-

+

HDMI

-

+

DirectX

12 (11_1)

12 (11_0)

CUDA

-

+

OpenCL

1.2

1.2

OpenGL

4.6

4.5

Shader Model

5.1

5.1

Vulkan

1.2.131

1.1.126

Ansel

-

+

BatteryBoost

-

+

GameStream

-

+

GameWorks

-

+

GeForce ShadowPlay

-

+

GPU Boost

-

2.0

H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder

-

+

Optimus

-

+