FirePro M5100 and Radeon HD 8950M - video card comparison
FirePro M5100
Radeon HD 8950M
Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
GPU code name
Venus
Saturn
Market segment
Mobile workstation
Desktop
Release date
October 2013
May 2013
Interface
MXM-A (3.0)
PCIe 3.0 x16
Boost clock speed
775 MHz
-
Core clock speed
725 MHz
1075 MHz
Floating-point performance
992.0 gflops
1,651 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
1,500 million
2,080 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
640
768
Power consumption (TDP)
-
100 Watt
Texture fill rate
31.00
51.60
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
4500 MHz
5500 MHz
Memory bandwidth
72 GB/s
88 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 (12_0)
OpenCL
1.2
2.0
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
6.3
Vulkan
1.2.131
1.2.131