NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M vs AMD FirePro M5950

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M AMD FirePro M5950

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 870M 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 870M 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock967MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (120.0GB/s vs 57.60GB/s)

864 additional rendering cores

AMD FirePro M5950 's Advantages

Lower TDP (35W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 870M +273%

2.599 TFLOPS

FirePro M5950

0.696 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 870M

VS

FirePro M5950

Graphics Card

Mar 2014

Release Date

Jan 2011

GeForce 800M

Generation

FirePro Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

MXM-A (3.0)

Clock Speeds

941 MHz

Base Clock

-

967 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

120.0GB/s

Bandwidth

57.60GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

6

1344

Shading Units

480

112

TMUs

24

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

384 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

27.08 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

5.800 GPixel/s

108.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

17.40 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.599 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

696.0 GFLOPS

108.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GK104

GPU Name

Whistler

N15E-GT-A2

GPU Variant

Whistler XT GL

Kepler

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

3.54 billion

Transistors

0.716 billion

294 mm²

Die Size

104 mm²

Board Design

100W

TDP

35W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.1

Vulkan

N/A

3.0

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.0

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