FirePro M5950 and Radeon HD 8950 OEM - video card comparison

FirePro M5950

Radeon HD 8950 OEM

Architecture

Terascale 2 (2009−2015)

GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)

GPU code name

Whistler-XT

Tahiti

Market segment

Mobile workstation

Desktop

Release date

April 2011

January 2013

Bus support

n/a

-

Interface

MXM-A (3.0)

PCIe 3.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

-

2x 6-pin

Boost clock speed

-

925 MHz

Core clock speed

725 MHz

850 MHz

Floating-point performance

696.0 gflops

3,315 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

40 nm

28 nm

Number of transistors

716 million

4,313 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

480

1792

Power consumption (TDP)

35 Watt

200 Watt

Texture fill rate

17.40

103.6

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

1 GB

3 GB

Memory bus width

128 Bit

384 Bit

Memory clock speed

900 MHz

5000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

57 GB/s

240.0 GB/s

Shared memory

-

-

Display Connectors

No outputs

1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort

HDMI

-

+

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

12 (11_1)

OpenCL

1.2

1.2

OpenGL

4.4

4.6

Shader Model

5.0

5.1

Vulkan

N/A

1.2.131