
FirePro M5950 and Quadro P500 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score FirePro M5950 vs Quadro P500
FirePro M5950
1353
Quadro P500
1673
FirePro M5950
Quadro P500
Architecture
Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
Pascal (2016−2021)
GPU code name
Whistler-XT
GP108
Market segment
Mobile workstation
Mobile workstation
Release date
April 2011
November 2017
Bus support
n/a
-
Interface
MXM-A (3.0)
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
-
None
Boost clock speed
-
1519 MHz
Core clock speed
725 MHz
1455 MHz
Floating-point performance
696.0 gflops
679.9 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
14 nm
Number of transistors
716 million
1,800 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
480
256
Power consumption (TDP)
35 Watt
18 Watt
Texture fill rate
17.40
21.25
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
900 MHz
5012 MHz
Memory bandwidth
57 GB/s
32.1 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
3x mini-DisplayPort
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
12.1
CUDA
-
6.1
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.4
4.6
Shader Model
5.0
5.1
Vulkan
N/A
1.1.0.1