GeForce GTX 280 and FirePro M5950 - video card comparison

Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 280 vs FirePro M5950

GeForce GTX 280

1338

FirePro M5950

1353

GeForce GTX 280

FirePro M5950

Architecture

Tesla 2.0 (2007−2013)

Terascale 2 (2009−2015)

GPU code name

GT200

Whistler-XT

Market segment

Desktop

Mobile workstation

Release date

June 2008

April 2011

Bus support

n/a

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

MXM-A (3.0)

Supplementary power connectors

6-pin & 8-pin

SLI options

Core clock speed

602 MHz

725 MHz

CUDA cores

240

Floating-point performance

622.1 gflops

696.0 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

65 nm

40 nm

Number of transistors

1,400 million

716 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

240

480

Power consumption (TDP)

236 Watt

35 Watt

Maximum GPU temperature

105 °C

Texture fill rate

48.2 billion/sec

17.40

Memory type

GDDR3

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

1 GB

Memory bus width

512 Bit

128 Bit

Memory clock speed

1107 MHz

900 MHz

Memory bandwidth

141.7 GB/s

57 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

HDTVDual Link DVI

No outputs

Multi monitor support

Maximum VGA resolution

2048x1536

Audio input for HDMI

S/PDIF

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

11.2 (11_0)

CUDA

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

OpenGL

2.1

4.4

Shader Model

4.0

5.0

Vulkan

N/A