GeForce GTX 280M SLI and FirePro M5950 - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 280M SLI
FirePro M5950
Architecture
G9x (2007−2010)
Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name
N10E-GTX
Whistler-XT
Market segment
Laptop
Mobile workstation
Release date
March 2009
April 2011
Bus support
-
n/a
Interface
-
MXM-A (3.0)
Core clock speed
585 MHz
725 MHz
Floating-point performance
-
696.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
55 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
1508 Million
716 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
256
480
Power consumption (TDP)
150 Watt
35 Watt
Texture fill rate
-
17.40
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
1 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
950 MHz
900 MHz
Memory bandwidth
-
57 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
-
No outputs
DirectX
10
11.2 (11_0)
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
-
1.2
OpenGL
-
4.4
Shader Model
-
5.0
Vulkan
-
N/A