Quadro M5500 and FirePro M5950 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Quadro M5500 vs FirePro M5950
Quadro M5500
8152
FirePro M5950
1353
Quadro M5500
FirePro M5950
Architecture
Maxwell (2014−2018)
Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name
GM204
Whistler-XT
Market segment
Mobile workstation
Mobile workstation
Release date
April 2016
April 2011
Bus support
-
n/a
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
MXM-A (3.0)
Supplementary power connectors
None
-
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
1140 MHz
-
Core clock speed
1139 MHz
725 MHz
Floating-point performance
-
696.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
5200 Million
716 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2048
480
Power consumption (TDP)
150 Watt
35 Watt
Texture fill rate
149.1
17.40
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
8 GB
1 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
6606 MHz
900 MHz
Memory bandwidth
211 GB/s
57 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
Display Port
1.2
-
G-SYNC support
+
-
DirectX
12
11.2 (11_0)
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.5
4.4
Shader Model
5.0
5.0
Vulkan
+
N/A
3D Vision Pro
+
-
Mosaic
+
-
nView Display Management
+
-
Optimus
+
-
VR Ready
+
-