NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850M vs AMD FirePro M5950

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850M AMD FirePro M5950

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 850M and 1024MB VRAM FirePro M5950 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850M 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 2 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

160 additional rendering cores

AMD FirePro M5950 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (57.60GB/s vs 32.03GB/s)

Lower TDP (35W vs 45W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 850M +65%

1.155 TFLOPS

FirePro M5950

0.696 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 850M

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FirePro M5950

Graphics Card

Mar 2014

Release Date

Jan 2011

GeForce 800M

Generation

FirePro Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-A (3.0)

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1001 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

32.03GB/s

Bandwidth

57.60GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

6

640

Shading Units

480

40

TMUs

24

16

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

14.43 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

5.800 GPixel/s

36.08 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

17.40 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1155 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

696.0 GFLOPS

36.08 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GM107

GPU Name

Whistler

N15P-GT-A1

GPU Variant

Whistler XT GL

Maxwell

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

1.87 billion

Transistors

0.716 billion

148 mm²

Die Size

104 mm²

Board Design

45W

TDP

35W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

5.0

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.0

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